Clarion 1969-10-24 Vol 45 No 08

Bruce Mulligan, co-chairman of Homecoming Committee,
hands Karen Nelson, 1969-70 Queen the traditional Homecoming
Proclamation at the Coronation ceremonies Thursday evening.
the CLARION Riggswilllecture
for UN Day Mon.
Plans for interim this year are
continually receiving more distinct
articulation. Course descriptions
have been compiled and the interim
committee and members of the
administration are attempting to
clarify what may seem to be a
rather complex financial aspect.
The cost of participating in the
interim program this January de-depends
upon how you are regis-tered
for the year. There will be
no extra charge if you are en-rolled
for both semesters. If you
are enrolled neither semester, par-ticipation
in a 3-credit course costs
$120-$140 per credit; room and
board fees are $67.50, or $22.50 per
week. If you are enrolled for one
semester of the academic year,
tuition and room and board are
half-rate; $60 and $33.75, respec-tively.
If you are not registered in in-terim,
application for housing must
be submitted to the Dean of Stu-dents,
Webster C. Muck. The ap-plications
will be approved only
if the student is working full-time.
The room and board fees in this
case, are $67.50.
Following are brief descriptions
of the interim courses:
INTERIM TERM COMMITTEE
REPORT
Course Descriptions
Curricular Changes in American
Higher Education: a study of cur-rent
trends in college curricular
programs. The historical social
backgrounds of curriculum devel-opment
together with the contem-porary
challenge to learning will
be reviewed. What place does lib-
You may have noticed—or signed
—a petition other than the one
printed in the Clarion two weeks
ago. The second petition that made
the rounds on Bethel's campus
was not, according to Rolland
Shearer, one of its authors, meant
to be a counter action.
In spite of the opinions of many
members of the Bethel Communi-ty,
the petition was intended to
be purely positive. Dr. Arthur
Lewis, professor of Christianity,
and a number of other Bethel
students realized the need for a
eral arts study have in today's
technological world? Are curricu-lum-
calendar innovations — tri-semester,
4-1-4 para-colleges—aids
to modern education? What are
the educational effects of small
group specialized seminars for
freshmen?
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Seeing, Knowing, and Believing:
a study of perception from the art-ists'
point of view that will de-velop
the theme that vision is
more than eyes. It is perceptual
and conceptual; it is retinal as
well as mental; it is personal as
well as social. Vision is seeing,
knowing, and believing — and such
a theme will be developed through
the arts of painting, sculpture,
and architecture. The course will
develop around the theme that art
is a history of vision, with a major
emphasis on Modern Art as the
vision of our time.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an Art
major but it is not a substitute
for Art 101.
Enrollment limit: 70
Printmaking: an introduction to
relief printing including studio
work in collage, linoleum, woodcut,
cardboard, and color printing on
single and multiple blocks.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an
Art major.
Ecology and Man: designed to
stimulate interest in and a con-cern
for the place that man has
day like the Moratorium, but were
dissatisfied with the overtones
which were anti-government. The
students felt the fact that the gov-ernment
is withdrawing t r o o p s
should be recognized.
According to Shearer, the stu-dents
realize that there is a lot
more to be accomplished, but due
to the fact that there has been
some de-escalation, the Moratori-um
day should not have had an
anti-administration emphasis. The
day could have been spent in pray-in
his environment. Special em-phasis
upon the human popula-tion,
growth and food problems,
irradiation and human evolution,
air and water pollution, and pre-servation
of man's environment.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Spectroscopy: an introduction to
the spectroscopic techniques, inter-pretation,
and instrumentation in
the areas of nuclear magnetic re-sonance,
infrared, ultra-violet/vis-ible,
mass spectroscopy and some
X-ray analysis. The course will
show the basic unity of the vari-ous
methods and show how they
are best utilized in the study of
chemical structures and chemical
reactions. An adequate knowledge
of spectroscopy is basic to the
education of a chemist.
Prerequisites: Chem 211
Credits may be applied to a
Chemistry major.
Chemical Research: an introduc-tion
to chemical research. The
course involves the study of a
chemical system heretofore unstud-ied
which requires a literature
search, a program of attack, and
execution of the study. This would
involve synthesis of compounds,
and physical and chemical studies
of these compounds. A report is
required written in chemical jour-nal
form. This course may be a
continuation of work begun dur-ing
the previous semester.
Prerequisites: Consent of the
chemistry faculty.
Credits may be applied to a
cont'd on page 4
er to a much better advantage,
said Shearer.
The petition which was signed by
130 students and faculty stated: "In
support of the use of October 15th
as a day for prayerful reflection
and open discussion of the war in
Vietnam, we affirm our confide ,-Ice
in the U.S. government's expressed
intention and active work to es-tablish
a peaceful settlement of
the war at the Paris Conference
Table and to effect the withdrawal
of our troops by the end of 1970."
by Toni Magnuson
Beginning with the movie "The
Hidden Crisis" on the Congo Thurs-day
morning, Bethel students par-ticipated
in the first phase of their
observance and support of World-wide
United Nations Day.
October 24 was officially made
UN Day with a resolution passed
two years after the organization
legally came into existence on Oc-tober
24, 1945. It is a day which
"shall be devoted to making known
to the people of the world the aims
and achievement of the United Na-tions
and to gain their support for
the work of the United Nations."
At Bethel specifically, the main
purpose of the day shall be world
orientation and familiarizing the
students with the work of the UN.
Due to conflicts in homecoming
activities, the main emphasis will
take place on Monday, Oct. 27
rather than the official day.
Robert E. Riggs, Associate Pro-fessor
of Political Science at the
University of Minnesota will be the
guest lecturer at 3:00 in the Sem-inary
Hall Chapel. Having written
the text Forging World Order and
other works pertaining to inter-national
and United States affairs,
Professor Riggs is considered an
expert on UN organizations and
shall speak on the UN's role in
today's world.
This Student Senate sponsored
activity is open to everyone and
Senate members urge all students
to participate. A question and an-swer
time will follow, giving any-one
interested a chance to discuss
with Professor Riggs the UN's ac-tions
and possibly discover if this
"Ideal" can really work.
The Student Senate took on the
UN Day project with primary pur-pose
of "world-orienting" Bethel
students and showing them the
true significance and role of this
world organization.
Various Senate members have
found that students aren't really
aware of the UN's functions and
see it merely as something which
won't work. A typical response
from a Bethel student when asked
his opinion on the UN was, "I
plead ignorance on the subject
. . . but from what I know, I see it
as a fairly inefficient organiza-tion."
"We want to show that the UN
is more than people think it is."
said senior Tom Mesaros, a history
and political science major and
coordinator of UN Day activities.
"Too many are judging it without
any background, or are merely
looking at it on the big power level
instead of seeing its significance
as a whole."
Why is it necessary for us to
be informed about the United Na-tions?
One student expressed that
"we should be seeking to become
informed on anything we can. And
as Christians, it is up to us to be-come
involved in learning about
other people. How else can you
expect to help them if you aren't
aware of their needs and problems
first?"
"We should be interested enough
as students to take one day—or
even just one hour to become
world-oriented," said Tom Mesaros.
"None of us will ever learn any-thing
without first making the ef-fort
to try to learn something."
U Thant, Secretary-General of
the United Nation's sees youth's
role as a very important one. "The
young generation of today will soon
inherit the United Nations as a
legacy embodying the fondest
hopes of the generation that pre-ceded
them. They should recognize
that the United Nations represents
all the principles and ideals young
people are striving for and that it
is their best opportunity to realize
them.
Their goal should be a world
where the whole of mankind can
go forward with an understanding,
a skill and a generosity which will
vastly enrich the quality and dig-nity
of their lives."
Vol. XLV—No. 8
Bethel College, St. Paul Minn. Friday, October 24, 1969
Interim courses and costs outlined
Students and faculty reaffirm faith in government
Are mid-semester tests and papers getting you down?
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by Tom Ford
ebapet Pote5
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
A Monday series on Christian
Morality continuing for 3 weeks
will be introduced this week by Dr.
Stanley Anderson. The subject will
be "Is Situation Ethics Christian?"
Students in the History and Po-litical
Science department will pre-sent
a Reformation Day program
on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the
Pastor will continue his messages
from Mark with the subject, 'With
a Note of Authority." NEW will
furnish the music.
On Thursday, Professor Robert
Nelson will give a multi-media pre-sentation
that he has prepared for
the opening session of the Wiscon-sin
Education Association meeting
in Milwaukee. "The McLuhan Age
—Anyone Under Thirty" will in-volve
the use of six slide projec-tors,
two movie films, and two
closed-circuit T-V cameras. Presi-dent
Carl Lundquist will speak at
the Friday worship service.
Bethel
Forum
Asa Christ a lark?
To the editor:
Following the Vietnam Moratori-um
an article appeared in the Min-neapolis
Star telling of two New
Jersey High School students who
committed suicide because "too
many people were treating the
Moratorium as just a lark."
How many of us are ever both-ered
by the fact that there are
"Christians" all around us treating
Jesus Christ as just a lark?
Toni Magnuson
Soviet students
try moratorium
Dear editor:
I know you will be interested in
this news item I picked up while
travelling in Europe this summer:
_ MOSCOW: It is now known
that on April 7th of this year a
Moratorium on Czechoslovakia
was declared by the Soviet As-sociation
of Students (SAS) to
protest the presence of the Rus-sian
army in the Free State
of Czechoslovakia. Four univer-sity
students participated in the
ceremonies. All four are now in
Siberia completing their studies.
Art Lewis
the CLARION
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Editor in chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marjorie Rusche
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Copy Editors Toni Magnuson
Missy McCool
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
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the CLARION Friday, October 24, 1969
Does music dept. represent
Bethel's image accurately?
"You would be amazed at the number of students who hear of
Bethel for the first time as a result of the tours by the various musical
performance groups". This was the statement made in the last Dean's
Staff meeting by James Bragg, head of Financial Aids, Admissions and
Recruitment.
"We have an unusually loyal Constituency,' Bragg again. "Last year
we recruited a freshman class of 330 with a recruiter who started
working in February. Down Snelling a few miles Macalester enrolled a
record froshmen class of 430 with the aid of six recruiters and substantial
financial endorsement."
Obviously, the music department through our constituency must
be doing Bethel college quite a service. Or are they? Are they repre-senting
to the constituents, alumni, and particularly the prospective
students what Bethel is really all about?
The Clarion has had several complaints this semester concerning
the question of whether the paper is representing the true Bethel image.
"Do you really believe that most of the students on this campus agree
with the policies upheld by Chuck Myrbo?" The question came from
Julius Whittinger, head of the music department, on the second day of
my editorship. I was instructed that it was my responsibility as an editor
to both represent and guide the students on this campus.
My reply to the question was that if he believed the Clarion did not
accurately represent the views of the majority of students on campus
that he find some who endorsed the views he throught more closely
represent Bethel College, and I would be happy to give them a voice.
I waited. Almost a month went by. No students of the type described
by Whittinger appeared.
About a month later, Dean Virgil Olsen approached me in the
coffee shop one afternoon to comment that he had attended a meeting
of the music faculty recently and that there had been complaint of the
coverage in the Clarion. Olson thought it might be a good idea to suggest
to Julius Whittinger that if he was dissatisfied, he might try finding
someone who could give him the coverage he desired.
A few more weeks went by and the Clarion news editor, for various
reasons, decided to drop her newly acquired music major and return to
political science. This process required an interview with Dr. Robert
Berglund who, coincidentally, wanted to interview her.
The conversation focused basically around Berglund's choice of
topic which included the quality of the Clarion and its roll on Bethel's
campus. Berglund expressed the opinion that "the Clarion had been of
rather poor quality in recent years and that it had not appropriately
reflected the temper or quality of a Christian college." When presented
with the fact that the Clarion has received All American ratings for
the past year and one half, he shrugged, saying that any paper with as
many typographical errors as the Clarion was high school caliber.
He also mentioned that Chuck Myrbo was not qualified to be fine
arts editor since he did not have the appropriate cultural perspective.
It was his conviction that Myrbo emphasized "pop music" too strongly
and was not upgrading the low cultural level of the Bethel community.
The conversation closed with the mutual agreement that the Clarion
would initiate a fine arts section covering art, drama, theater, films, pop,
and classical music. Berglund promised to contact music students who
would and could write reviews of both pop and classical concerts for the
Clarion. The Clarion office has, to say the least, not been overwhelmed
by music students with concert reviews.
The student newspaper is not the only area of communications with
which Berglund has been in contact. Not long ago, WBCS was offered
asistance in obtaining additional finances—about 20 times what they
now receive—if they would begin playing more classical music. Along
with the offer came the warning that if they did not comply, the station
would not be on the air long. According to Mark Kingsbeck, head of
WBCS, Berglund promised to send some of his music students down to
help with programming. They waited and waited as long as time would
permit and finally went ahead on their own and haven't seen a music
student yet.
It is not the purpose of this editorial to personally attack any one
member of the music department, but to question the public image
which Bethel is putting forth.
It must be evident that due to the lack of response on the part of
students in the music department that either the music faculty are grossly
misjudging the areas in which student interests lie, or that students in
the music department are among those timid bookish parasites on
campus against which this editor has been haranguing all semester.
If the former alternative is the case, it is really quite dishonest
of the college to continue presenting the public with a distorted image
of the Bethel commuinty. After all, Bethel consists largely of students
rather than faculty. The institution supposedly exists for and of the
students, therefore in order to present a true picture of what Bethel is,
the public image should present the students in their true light.
If the later is the case, heaven help us! We are sending the dead
weight of the campus to publically represent us.
In an interview with James Bragg earlier this semester, he expressed
concern over the question of whether Bethel is being accurately rep-resented
to prospective students. This was one of the reasons he gave
for the consolidation of Recruitment, Admissions, and Financial Aids.
Intregration would present the opportunity for follow-up to discover
whether Bethel was what students had expected.
It seems evident that if the major portion of public contact is
made through the music department, the public is not receiving an
accurate image of "where Bethel is at." If our constituency and alumni
are as loyal as circumstances seem to suggest, are we not being unfair
in showing them a distorted image. We have nothing of which to be
ashamed—unless it be the dead weight described previously. Should
we not exercise our trust?
If the public is to receive a true picture of Bethel students, either
the music department should update itself in student affairs, or the
community should begin utilizing in public relations its other fertile
resources such as art, drama, athletics, student communications and
government.
THE POLICY OF VIETNAMIZATION
The Nixon Administration took office last January with a full under-standing
of its major task — to disengage the United States from the
war in Vietnam. Now, ten full months later, Vietnamizing the war has
become our foreign policy.
The problem for Mr. Nixon is complex. First, he must gain enough
of the people's confidence to pursue a policy that remains shrouded
in secrecy. Then, he must effectively judge the level of enemy activity
in order to direct the removal of American forces. Finally, he must find
a route to peace in Southeast Asia that will not cause a backlash of
public opinion aimed at his administration.
The program to Vietnamize the war is two-fold. The first portion
is the removal of our combat forces from the war zone. The second
portion is the rebuilding of the South Vietnamese army so that they
are capable of carrying the burden of combat. It is clear that the
President's policy will attempt to prevent a Communist victory after our
withdrawal.
The speed of our withdrawal is conditioned by both the level of
Communist activity and the fighting ability of the South Vietnamese.
The present lack of intensive fighting is not as good an indicator as
might be, though. Many members of the Administration fear that this
is a part of Hanoi's strategy; a low level of combat will speed American
withdrawal, leaving the ARVN at the hands of fresh VC forces.
Mindful of what might happen, Mr. Nixon has decided to keep his
plan for withdrawal both flexible and secret. Within this frame of
reference, it may be possible to understand the President's comments
regarding the Vietnam Moratorium. To forgive them is a different matter;
surely they will be used against him many times.
The program to strengthen the ARVN will probably take two or
three years. It will also involve the giving of advanced weaponry to the
South. The goal of this effort would be to give Saigon an adequate
war machine with which to hold off the Viet Cong.
Though few realize it, the policy of Vietnamization would not bring
a total end to our military presence in Vietnam. Some 250,000 troops,
about one-half of our present troop level would remain for a period
of a few years. These would not be fighting men; they would be the
supply troops that presently keep our war effort going.
The South Vienamese have never had an adequate system for the
supply and support of its fighting units. We assumed that role in the
middle sixties. A major portion of the program to build up the ARVN
would be directed towards this area, but until the South Vietnamese
can replace them, American logistical forces will have to remain.
In the meantime, the American government works for a peace
settlement in Paris. But since we are not in a position to dictate terms,,
emphasis has been shifted from the peace table to the policy of Vietnam-ization.
From the perspective of the White House, the war will continue
after we disengage; its outcome will largely depend upon the way we
disengage. To Mr. Nixon, the best way to disengage is to build a South
Vietnamese military machine that can fight the war without our direct
military participation. Given the proper combination of factors —
Hanoi's behavior, the mood of the American people, the ability of the
ARVN, and finally, time — it could prove to be a feasible answer to the
problem.
But there are alternatives to the President's policy, and next week
we will begin an examination of three of them.
After his speech, concluding
Bethel's homecoming activities Sat-urday
night, Dr. Ramm will meet
for an informal session with par-ents
in the Bodien Dormitory
lounge.
This year's Homecoming speaker,
Dr. Ramm, is a well-known theo-logian
in orthodox Christian cir-cles.
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Homecoming Queen Dr. Ramm, noted theologian, will speak by Kathy Quick
Dr. Bernard Ramm, Bethel's
homecoming speaker, is, in the
opinion of one Bethel student, one
of the five or six most brilliant
men in orthodox Christian circles.
With a broad background of train-ing
and experience in theology, Dr.
Ramm is well qualified to speak
on the dehumanization of man.
Since his strong point is modern
contemporary theology, Dr. Ramm's
homecoming presentation on "A
Christian View of Man in an Age
of Despersonalization" should be
quite relevant to the modern world.
His presentation Sat. night at 7:30
in Bethel's fieldhouse is his only
one in the Twin Cities, so the pub-lic
is urged to attend along with
Bethel students and faculty.
Dr. Ramm's return to Bethel for
our 1969 Homecoming will truly
be a homecoming for him. He form-erly
served as a Professor of Theol-ogy
at the Bethel Seminary. After
leaving Bethel he assumed a posi-tion
as Profesor of Religion and
Director of Graduate Studies at
Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Dr. Ramm is presently serving
as Professor of Systematic Theol-ogy
and Christian Apologetics at
California Baptist Theological Sem-inary
in Covina, California.
Among his literary achievements,
Dr. Ramm has written ten books
concerning various aspects of
Christian Apologetics, Hernemeu-tics,
and theology, and an analysis
of the Christian college in the
twentieth century.
He is consulting editor for the
well known Christian magazines
Eternity, Christianity Today, and
the Watchman-Examiner.
Dr. Ramm has published articles
in several dictionaries of theology,
the World Book Encyclopedia, and
essays in Revelation and the Bible
and Basic Christian Doctrines.
Friday, October 24, 1969 the CLARION page 3
Last night, at semi-formal ceremonies in the fieldhouse, junior Karen
Anne Nelson was crowned 1969-70 Homecoming Queen. The affair was
the highlight of the evening following the drama production of the
"Adding Machine."
Karen Nelson came to Bethel as a freshman to "find out what Christ-ian
education was like. I didn't know much about Bethel, and had only
visited here one day when I came."
When Karen was asked to evaluate Bethel now that she is in her
third year here, she commented that students can find freedom at Bethel.
According to Karen, many students are "uptight" but are only stifled
because of "self". They could get out of their rut if they wanted to. "They
are still relying too much on other people and other people's values."
Bethel offers many opportunities to get off campus, she continued. You
don't have to be put in a box if you don't want to. Then she added "I
love the professors because they are really concerned."
Karen is an elmentary education major who has a particular interest
in special education, such as work with the mentally retarded or children
who need speech therapy.
When asked about life in general and her goals, Karen said, "I'd like
to live to the fullest and be the best person I can through Christ's help.
I want to be a worthwhile person both in my profession and as a wife
and mother."
To Karen, the purpose of Homecoming is primarily a social affair and
for alumni. "I wonder why it couldn't be more a week of questioning."
"Homecoming gets a lot of support, but not necessarily support that
is concerned." It's more a "big, wild, noncommittal support." Kids go to
homecoming because everyone goes.
Karen hopes while alumni are on campus this year, that they will
realize athletic scholarships are necessary if Bethel is going to be able to
offer an education that ministers to the whole person. "It is important
that we can hold our heads up with non-Christian schools and show that
Christians aren't "namby-pamby."
As far as being queen, Karen said she feels that there is a respon-sibility
to represent Bethel, "and in a small way a Christian campus. But
the biggest honor for me," she said, "was being chosen as a homecoming
candidate by my class."
Karen Nelson, junior, was crowned Homecoming Queen Thursday
night.
Homecoming Pep Fest features Skydiving Show
To send both fans and football
team off to the game in "high"
spirits, the homecoming committee
has arranged for an exhibition by
three members of the Twin Eagle
Skydiving School. Jim Marshall,
member of the Minnesota Vikings
football team and also a diver, will
be present as master of ceremon-ies.
The three sky divers will have
orange smoke flares attached to
their hands and feet and will jump
from a height of 12,500 feet free-falling
a rate of 200 miles per hour
before their shutes open at about
2500 feet 21/2 - 3 minutes be-fore
they land in Lake Valentine.
The divers' maneuvers will be ex-plained
on the ground by Jim Mar-shall.
The Twin Eagles Skydiving
school, which claims over 800 mem-bers,
is the only such school in
Minnesota. The three members par-ticipating
in the exhibition on Sat-urday
are Don Wander, a biology
teacher from North High School,
Jim Zehner, who is training as a
commercial pilot for North Cent-ral
Airlines, and Lan Wells, head
instructor and director of the
school.
An interview with Director Wells
revealed there is a lot more to sky-diving
than jumping out of a plane.
It is almost a philosophy on life.
According to Wells, skydiving re-veals
a person's individual char-acter.
There is always a fear of
jumping. A skydiver never over-
Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's a member of the skydiving team from
the Twin Eagle Skydiving School.
comes it. In beginners it is a fear
of the unknown. In pros it turns
to apprehension as they gain a
realization of all the possibilities
of what could go wrong.
Wells said that his motivation for
skydiving came from the satisfac-tion
that he gains in overcoming
his own fear. He also likes to ob-serve
people's reactions to the
jumps.
Wells calls the jump a "soul-cleansing
experience." "You really
become aware of what faith is," he
said. "You learn your personal
weaknesses and become aware of
how insignificant you really are.
You learn to face the possibility
of death."
Wallendorf chosen alumnus of year
Selected to receive the fifth
alumnus of the year award is Paul
E. Wallendorf, who graduated from
the Bethel Academy in 1925 and in
1968 assumed the title treasurer of
General Electric. He and his wife
will be guests of the alumni council
for Homecoming activities Satur-day.
According to John Carlson, alum-ni
director, Paul Wallendorf "is
the first member of the business
community to be selected since
this award was established by the
Council in 1965."
After graduating from Bethel,
Wallendorf went on to receive a
business degree from Northwestern
University in 1931. He became a
certified public accountant and
joined General Electric. In May of
1968 he assumed the responsibili-ties
of domestic and international
financing for that corporation.
Wallendorf is a member of the
President's Associates, a group
composed of professional and man-agement
people who form an ad-visory
council to Dr. Carl Lund-quist
and the Board of Education.
Wallendorf and his wife are re-sponsible
for the Barbara Wallen-dorf
Memorial Scholarsrip estab-lished
in memory of a daughter.
His father, Rev. Gustaf E. Wal-lendorf,
served Conference church-es
throughout the country in Mich-igan,
Illinois, Connecticut, Kansas,
Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
during this lifetime. His sister, Mrs.
T. L. Hartsell, taught at Bethel
Academy in the 1920's.
Wallendorf and his wife now re-side
in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Paul E. Wallendorf, treasurer of
General Electric, was chosen 1969-
70 alumnus of year.
What comes down hopefully comes back up again. Find out for
yourself at the Pep Fest tomorrow morning.
page 4 the CLARION
Friday, October 24, 1969
Apartment life is 'great!'
by Sherie Lindvall
Deep wine curtains, knee high
tables, huge floor pillows, oriental
silk screens and the faint aroma
of sandlewood in the air. An opium
den? Guess again. It's one of the
apartments housing Bethel bach-elors
this year.
Nearly half of Bethel's men are
finding housekeeping among their
learning experiences as they em-bark
on the "apartment life." Due
to a lack of available housing on
campus, academics and athletics
are being teamed with cooking and
cleaning.
After one month of dinners,
dishes and the chores of house-keeping
the reports from our men
off-campus are good. A 21 year
old senior commented about apart-ment
living: "It's great! We really
have a riot and we can have some-one
in whenever we want and love
the privacy. Come on over and take
a look!" (I did stop in for a minute
but have no fear, I'm a Bethel
girl.)
The cost of living off-campus is
about the same as room and board
costs at Bethel. Apartments are
available from $130 to $160 a
month and food expenses range
from $5 to $7 a week per resident.
Senior Gary McCann reported: "We
really eat pretty well; yesterday
we had pork roast, yams, and blue-berry
pie for dessert."
In a number of apartment situa-tions,
the household tasks are per-formed
jointly to avoid unneces-sary
tensions and give everyone a
chance at the "gourmet routine".
All the students visited and in-terviewed
had a very positive opin-ion
concerning the independent
apartment life. "It's a good place
to start to get along on your own,
especially for students who are
close to graduation."
Parents, administrators and peers
who seriously doubted the capa-bilities
of college men living in-dependently
and away from cam-pus
can relax; several participants
in the off-campus experiment chor-us:
"all is well!" Skeptics will
also appreciate this last note. Gary
McCann, Carl Carlson and Denny
Whitlock, occupants of a "fascinat-ing
pad," have decided to share
their fortune and every Sunday
night invite 'several dorm men
over for dinner so they might get
acquainted with on-campus men.
Gary McCann (center) and roommates dine on one of their "home
cooked" meals.
Editor's note: The following editorial is a response provoked
by an article printed in the monthly Bethel College Music Journal
put out by students in the Music Department and reprinted here.
In light of the fact that we as Christians are continually searching
for ways to make our faith more relevant, the article and the
response touch upon an issue vital to this community and therefore
find their place in the CLARION.
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." (Col. 3:16)
One of the alarming signs of the times is the invasion by the
world and the popular music field into the realm of religious and
sacred music. Recording companies have begun to "package" devotional
songs ��� adapting them to the swing-beat and syncopation of the bar-room.
One "big time" producer claims that secularizing sacred music
is "the greatest groove since rock and roll." As a result of this type of
recording business, Gospel music is now being sung in night clubs,
taverns, and dance halls across the land. All of this is a symptom of
deterioration — of the breakdown between the sacred and the secular.
Nothing stirs up my righteous anger like hearing some clowning enter-tainer
swing Gospel songs and even Scriptural choruses.
Even more serious than the use of Gospel music by the world,
however, is THE GROWING EVIL OF USING WORLDLY MUSIC IN
OUR EVANGELICAL CIRCLES! Gospel music is designed to teach the
gospel. The jazzing of sacred music by Gospel comedians is nauseating
and regrettable. Why don't we stick to the "psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs" of Ephesians 5:19? If the music in our churches has no real
message in it, why sing it? We cannot stop the world from using and
debauching Gospel music; but we can stop the world's music from
being used in Christian churches.
THOT: Instead of the church being a saving salt in the world, the
world has become a corrupting leaven in the church!
M.R.D.
Dear M.R.D., whoever you are,
Isaiah 12:5 "Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously, let
this be known in all the earth."
What is "worldly" music? What is "sacred" music? What is "the
church", "the world"?
It usually helps to define or understand what something is before
you declare it "good" or "evil".
Of course, we want to base our definitions or understandings of
concepts on what Christ and the Bible says, being Jesus-people.
The church, according to Scriptural definition, is the body of
believers in Christ. This body of believers does not exclusively exist
in the physical structure of a church building. Indeed, given the ante-dated
and deteriorated state of the institutional church today, I would
tend to believe that there are more Jesus-people outside of the institu-tionalized
church than in it.
The world. "Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you."-
Rms. 3:13. From this verse, I would infer that the "world" and the
"church" — body of believers in Christ — are two antithetical and
diametrically opposed entities. However, if we look at the situation
today, the "church" and the "world" are not antithetical, but integrated.
The physical, institutional church fosters and promotes (either implicity
or explicity) the values (materialism, self-rigtheousness, hypocrisy,
bigotry, intolerance, etc.) which help keep the rest of the establishment
(political, social, economic, power-structure) running.
This is because the institutional church of today has perverted the
values and ideals expressed by Jesus Christ, his followers, and the
early church; which were love, humility, peace, brotherhood, economic
communism, etc.
Now to the music part of this essay. As Dr. Berglund said in a
Clarion letter to the editor last fall, "Notes are notes". Quite true.
There are no sacred or secular notes, no good or evil notes.
The value of notes is derived from the way in which they are asso-ciated
and the way we perceive and associate them with ideas and/or
other notes. Music exists on a critical, intellectual level due to the com-poser's
patterning of particular notes, or style. It also exists on a cul-tural,
emotional, subjective level due to the perceivers experiences, asso-ciations,
emotions, and personality.
Thus, "sacred" and "secular" music are not absolute forms but are
relative classifications of works of art starting from the same material,
notes.
Hymns of the early church were sung to "folk" melodies. There
is a strong possibility that these melodies were incorporated into the
"sacred" Roman Catholic liturgical chants. (See Grout, A History of
Western Music, p. 7.)
In medieval times, and during the Renaissance and later periods,
the line between "sacred" and "secular" was extremely thin. Motets
freely intermingled vernacular and Latin, "sacred" and "secular" themes
and lyrics. Luther adapted some of his great hymns from German folk
songs. "0 Sacred Head Now Wounded" was originally a love song.
So, why do some people get "uptight" when they hear lyrics about
Jesus with folk, rock, and/or pop melodies? It certainly isn't "sinful."
We have seen that 1.) notes are notes 2.) the mixing of "sacred" and
"secular" music is not a phenomena peculiar to this decade.
Using current music, art, and communications forms to present
Christ and his message is definitely a good thing; not a "growing evil."
The current generation of kids — and some members of the older
generation — simply will not listen to "traditional church music." They
find the current musical forms more involving, meaningful, and aesthe-tically
pleasing than the forms that the institutional church is currently
using. Although this fact may be anathema to traditional church musi-cians,
it is none-the-less a fact.
Does this mean we should educate the current generation "up to our
level," make sure we develop "appropriate" philosophies of music edu-cation?
No. The level we are dealing with when discussing the matter
of using "secular" music in the church or "secular" music to "evangel-ize"
is the cultural, emotional, psychological level. At this level anyone's
judgement is equally as valid as our own — regardless of age, race,
sex, or degree.
To gain an audience, you must communicate with people in their
language. You cannot tell a Frenchman how you feel about Jesus when
he cannot understand English and you cannot speak French.
You cannot tell a "hippie" how you feel about Jesus when he does
not understand the phrases you use, the meanings of the words you
use ((i.e. "saved", "new birth", "sin", "redemption") or the style of
music you use. You cannot fulfill the Great Commission (Go ye into all
the world . . .) if you cannot understand the language or music of the
"hippie"; or, thinking you understand it, you refuse to deal with it
because "hippies" are our own American "heathens" and you might
become "tainted" by trying to communicate with them.
You are killing musical creativity in the church by sticking to the
old, established, traditional forms of music and excluding any other
forms. Music becomes ritual instead of a creative, stimulating, dynamic
experience. When was the last time you thought about the meaning
of the words you were singing instead of just going through the ritual
of singing a hymn? Think of the hymn, "0 Happy Day." When my home
church sings it, they sound, look, and feel like they're half dead — not
very happy at all. Now recall the year-old platter, "0 Happy Day" by
the Edwin Hawkin Singers. It is really a joyous, spiritual rendition —
with a beat.
If you disagree or don't understand what I am saying, I am open
to two-way communication. I am not open to one-way didactic harangu-ing.
So, if you think truth can arise through rational debate, come and
talk to me, M.R.D., whoever you are. But if you think you have the
corner on truth, forget it.
Love in Christ,
Marjorie M. Rusche
Interim plans
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Chemistry major.
Study Trip to Israel: flying sem-inar
of Holy Land. Biblical sites,
excavations, etc. will be visited in
order to throw light upon Biblical
events. It is hoped that the tour
will better enable the student to
understand the arena into which
God chose to send His servants
and His Son. (The credits for up-per
division require a 5,000 word
paper.)
Prerequisites: Reading a text be-fore
we leave on archeology and
one on Biblical history and geo-graphy.
Credits may be applied to a
Christianity major or to the Christ-ianity
general arts requirement.
Schools in the Inner City: study
of the sociological problems in in-ner
city schools. Work as a teach-er's
aid with inner city children.
Prerequisites: Limiting to stu-dents
who are, or have been, in
leadership roles in the schools (e.g.
Introduction to Education assign-ments).
Credits may be applied as elec-tive
credits only.
Black Literature in U.S.: this
course will center attention on the
impressive body of literature about
the racial agony of America writ-ten
by those who had to live it.
"Black is beautiful." Readings will
be selected poetry and three or
four novels. All students will work
on a project.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an
English major.
Intensive Study of an Author,
Period, Genre or Work: the course
will acquaint the student with the
tools of literary research—bibli-ographies,
indexes, journals, and
other standard reference mater-ials.
The student will have oppor-tunity
to work in the Bethel Col-lege
library and other Twin City
area libraries. He will then choose
a topic for intensive investigation
and will prepare an annotated bib-liography.
English majors can use
the course for major credit by
participating in English Majors'
Conference.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an
English major.
French Culture: to involve the
student in French culture—art,
music, historic traditions, politics,
science, literature, daily life by
means of lectures by visiting pro-fesors,
film and slide presentations,
student panel discusions, visits to
art museums, restaurants, social
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Pop goes the music
"Christ, you know it ain't easy"
(Uncut rebirth
, • ,
Nystedt worK organized confusion
by Chuck Myrbo
On the third (and far from the largest) planet in a small
solar system in a minor galaxie nowhere near the center of the
universe, there is intelligent life. As far as we know, there is
no life anywhere e: se. We believe that a God big enough to con-,
tain the universe put that life on this planet and called the
highest form of that life "man." He created billions of stars and
saved man for the sixth day. David asked that God: "When I
look at Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the
stars which Thou has established; what is man that Thou art
mindful of him?"
It seems to me ultimately crucial that God, faced with the
possibility of creating an entire universe from absolutely noth-ing,
chose as the culmination of that creation man; that God,
with an infinite number of possibilities before Him and no pat-ern
at all to guide Him, gave His most complex creature that
particular set of qualities which we call "being human."
So there must be something extremely valuable about being
human, something we should celebrate, something we should
make every attempt to perfect. The faults which separate us
from angels are far less important than the virtues which sep-arate
us from, say, rocking chairs. But what does it mean to
"be human?" What makes the experience worthwhile? What is
there about human beings which makes them the focus of God's
universe? From here on: an attempt to define 'the human."
First part of the attempt: when we moved to Platteville,
Wisconsin, just before my senior year in high school I met a
girl who would be, before she graduated, homecoming queen,
prom queen, girls' state representative, honor student, star in
the class play, and everyone's favorite baby sitter. I soon came
closer to loving her than I had come to loving anyone else, but
it wasn't her glory that brought me tumbling.
One night at play practice the director got on her back
about something, and kept it up until she ran off the stage
crying. Right then, for the first time, I felt really close to her.
Just when she was embarrassed to have anyone see her, I saw
her as beautiful. And something about the way weakness func-tioned
at that moment has a great deal to do with "being
human."
`Exit the King' and 'Misanthrope'
perform in Northrop Auditorium
"Always room for one more"
Garnet's Standard Service
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Courteous
Conscientious
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events with people of French back-ground.
Course presented in Eng-lish.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
German House: intensive use of
German in formal as well as in-formal
settings. A study of present-day
Germany with the help of
German guests, films, and library
material. Informal activities will
include eating meals together, re-creation,
music, plays, visits to
German homes.
Prerequisites: One year of col-lege
German or two years of high
school German.
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Spanish House: emphasis on
Spanish conversation with trips to
Mexican restaurants, guest speak-ers,
singing in Spanish, study of
Latin American culture and social
life.
Prerequisites: One year of col-lege
Spanish or two years of high
school Spanish.
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Intro to Computer Programming:
basic FORTRAN computer lang-uage
with extensions. Programming
applications to natural and social
sciences.
Prerequisites: Junior year of
high school mathematics.
Credits may be applied to Math
major.
Understandings of Man: a study
of the nature of man from the
viewpoints of Huxley, Buber, Teil-hard,
Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard,
and Reinhold Neibuhr through
primary reading and class discus-sion.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to Phil-osophy
major or to the Christian-ity
general arts requirement.
Psychology of Sports: this course
will be a seminar-research type
by Marjorie M. Rusche
As a part of their centennial
celebration, Augsburg College host-ed
a concert at Northrup Auditor-ium
last Sunday, presenting the
Augsburg Choir in concert with
the Minneapolis Orchestra and
three featured soloists.
The first part of the program
was fairly traditional, consisting of
a Brahms overture, Academic Fes-tival,
and Grieg's Concerto in A
Minor for Piano and Orchestra.
Brahms described his own work
as a "very boisterous potpourri
of student songs." Br a h m's
craftsmanship in integrating four
different themes turned "potpour-ri"
into a unified work with a con-tinuous
melodic line. The virtuosity
of the Minneapolis Orchestra drew
out the emotional warmth and har-monic
richness of the piece.
Grieg's Concerto, a frequently
performed concert piece, featured
pianist James Johnson, a member
of the Augsburg music faculty.
The concerto is almost a sophisti-cated
Norwegian folk dance. Many
musical moods, centered around
relatively short rhythmic patterns,
color the concerto.
The orchestra did their part
beautifully. The pianist did every-thing
technically correct; though
his interpretation w a s rather
straight. The orchestra and pianist
could have been synchronized bet-course
involving the following
types of topics: (1) How do you
motivate people to new heights of
athletic achievement? (2) Why is
our culture so sports conscious?
(3) What psychological factors are
involved in learning and teaching
athletic skills? (4) How do men and
women differ in their interests
and attitudes toward sports as par-ticipants
and as spectators?
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Physics Lab Project: the proto-type
of the Bethel version of the
Malmstadt-Enke Test Equipment.
A week-end trip to Argonne Na-tional
Laboratories will feature the
operation and application of a com-mercially
designed M-E test set-up.
Prerequisites: Physics 241 or per-mission
of the instructor.
Credits may be applied to a Phy-sics
major.
Sensitivity and the Christian: a
discussion and laboratory in the
method of sensitivity training as
it relates to the Christian life.
Sensitivity training is designed to
help one gain facility in expressing
personal feelings and in being re-ceptive
to the emotional needs of
others.
Prerequisites: General Psychol-ogy
151, take M.M.P.I. test (apply
to Paul Mauger).
Credits may be applied to the
Behavioral Science: Psychology
general arts requirement.
Christian Faith and History: a
consideration of writings of the re-lationship
of Christian faith and
history and attempts that have
been made to develop a Christian
theology or philosophy of history.
Students will read such books as
Herbert Butterfield's Christianity
and History, Buttrick's Christ in
History.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied toward
a history major.
Encounter with Social Problems:
tours and visits will provide first
ter. At times there seemed to be
a race going on to see who would
get to the end of the phrase first.
The pianist usually won.
By far the most novel experi-ence
of the concert was the pre-sentation
of Knut Nystedt's Lucis
Creator Optime, the world pre-miere
of his cantata which was spe-cially
commissioned for Augsburg's
Centennial Celebration.
Lucis blended contemporary
and medieval sounds to give ef-fects
ranging from integrated, pul-sating
disharmony to melodic con-fusion.
The varying effects were created
through use of antiphonal orches-tration
(the brasses and percussion
were split into either side of the
stage which gave a staccato echo
effect), aleatoric technique (the
strings start on a chord and then
glissando upward or downward so
you feel like you're being stretched
upward and pulled downward with
the tension), dissonances in both
voice and orchestration, and point-illistic
technique (starting with a
note and having voices or instru-ments
layer on it, like a chime ef-fect).
The choir sang a straight-tone
Gregorian chant style, sounding like
ghosts of medieval saints mourning
over the martyred. The text of the
piece was an old vesper hymn at-tributed
to Gregory
hand contact with forces causing
social problems within our society
today. Opportunities for discussion
of these forces will be provided
following the tours.
Prerequisites: Sociology 152 pre-ferred.
Credits may be applied to Soci-ology
major or anthropology.
Social Science Research: an in-dependent
library research project
stressing both the subject as well
as finding possible sources. The
approach will be very flexible as
to topic and manner of research.
A student may elect to research
any area of interest and use the in-structor
and the library as a ref-erence
source.
Prerequisites: Open to social
science majors and others by per-mission
of instructor.
Credits may be applied to a Soc-ial
Science major.
Creative Dramatics with Chil-dren:
principles and methods of
developing original dramatizations
with children. Primary emphasis
on story dramatization. Observa-tions
of children's classes in crea-tive
dramatics. Readings, projects,
class discussions. Intended primari-ly
for elementary education majors,
recreation students, pre-social work
students.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to Speech
a major.
Rhetoric of Racial Revolt: his-torical
and contemporary black is-sues
will be discussed using black
rhetoric as the source material.
Through discussions and lectures
an attempt will be made to arrive
at an objective evaluation of the
rhetoric of men like Stokeley Car-michael,
H. Rap Brown, Eldridge
Cleaver, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and
other contemporary black rhetoric-ians.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to Speech
a major.
Nystedt's whole work is a com-mentary
on our times as it reflects
the current juxtaposition of ortho-dox
and contemporary themes and
styles which are struggling with
each other today. The orthodox
and contemporary themes and
styles that were in conflict through-out
Nystedt's cantata were never
resolved. It was an interesting and
chaotic musical effort. Perhaps Ny-stedt
subconciously tried, and fail-ed,
to ape Penderecki.
The juxtaposition of traditional
and contemporary forms of music
were enjoyable. The integration of
the two styles has exciting musical
possibilities if the styles are in-tegrated,
and not merely played or
sung simultaneously.
The extraneous personnel on the
stage were less impressive than was
intended. (Augsburg choir members
on risers, the Minneapolis Orches-tra,
an unhinged grand piano, a
celeste, two soloists on the main
stage, and a pipe organ in the
pit.) Clean it up, clear it out. You
don't really need all those bodies
for an impressive work of art.
It all became slightly ludicrous.
Particularly considering the fact
Augsburg paid a pretty penny for
an imported Norwegian baritone
whose performance consisted of a
five minute composite total of ran-dom,
unpatterned, unintelligible
vocalizing.
Friday, October 24, 1969
Two dissimilar plays, Ionesco's
"Exit the King," and Moliere's
"The Misanthrope," mark the re-turn
of professional living theatre
to Northrop Auditorium on Mon-day,
November 3 and Tuesday,
November 4, at 8 p.m.
The decision to present the two
plays at Northrop, according to
Ross Smith, Director of Concerts
and Lectures, was made, "Because
there are once in a while oppor-tunities
to present good touring
companies that would not other-wise
be seen by Twin City Audi-ences.
APA is one of these."
"Exit the King," a product of
playwright Eugene Ionesco's mind,
presents an aging monarch faced
with the prospect of imminent
death. His two wives, one young
and the oth6r old, compete for his
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attention hoping to get him to ac-cept
one of their variant views as
to the manner in which he should
face death.
Ionesco carefully avoids cloaking
the external trappings of the play
with places, names and historical
chronology that will give the audi-ence
a chance to ignore personal
identification with the problem.
He displays his skill in accomp-lishing
this and even injecting a
type of humor that does not de-tract
from the central theme.
"The Misanthrope," Moliere's
acknowledged masterpiece, h a s
been performed at The Comedie
Francaise about 1,500 times since
1690. The witty spectacle of people
who display the utmost decorum
while cutting each other into rib-bons
has been an unfailing delight
to audiences all over the world.
You can't keep a good man down. Royals kick the ball
against Lakehead.
Canadian soccer team from Lakehead
outlasts a scrappy Bethel squad
The soccer team from Lakehead
of Canada had a very successful
road trip to the Twin Cities. They
defeated Hamline by a 4-0 score
on Friday afternoon and added
another shutout Saturday morning
by beating the Bethel squal 2-0.
It looked like the possibility of
a zip-zip score. The first 45 minute
half closed without a goal and it
wasn't until thirty minutes of the
second half that Lakehead scored.
The left wing passed the ball to
the center who manged to get a
solid kick off while the ball was
still in the air. Finding its way into
the top right hand corner, Royal
goalie Jon Nordstrom had no
chance of reaching the ball.
Lakehead's second tally came on-ly
three minutes later after a
corner kick. The Bethel defense
couldn't clear it and the Canadian
right inner slammed in a shot from
ten yards out.
Though the game was played on
an even basis most of the time,
the Lakehead team worked very
well together in their passing game.
The Bethel game plan counteracted
their potential for scoring with a
different defensive alignment. The
Royals played with only four for-wards,
the usual three halfbacks,
and the not so usual three full
backs. The halfback line had to
operate as the supporting line for
both the offense and defense. The
system worked most of the game
for defense, but left the offense
too weak to mount enough pres-sure
to score.
The Royals put out a strong
effort and were not really out of
the game until the very end. The
Canadian school, a public institu-tion,
came with experience both
as individuals and as a team.
The soccer team's Homecoming
Day game should prove to be a
real challenge as they take on the
University of Minnesota. The inter-national
students have their own
teams, so our opponents are most
likely all American. However, they
are very likely to be a good club.
Good first half was not
enough; Royals lose
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The Column
by Tim Weko
Because Falcon leads the intramural football league, some of their
members have been urging me to give them the recognition that
their 6-0 win-loss record seems to merit.
Well, to be sure, they have won more games than any other team;
it's just that they haven't been the most consistent team except for
the fact that they win consistently which is the only thing that counts
ultimately.
But Falcon has been involved in at least three sudden death
Lost overtime games with other teams. I guess what I'm trying to say is
0 that there are a number of very good teams in the intramural league
this year, any number of which could conceivably beat the leaders,
but since Falcon seems to be able to win the close ones they remain the
team to beat.
* * * *
Intramural bowling has gotten off to a rolling start with quite
a few boys showing up for the weekly Tuesday night bowler derby.
In fact, First Floor and New Dorm had so many people present that
they had to divide into two teams each. Bowling is something that
everyone can do, whether athletically inclined or not. So next Tuesday
why not go knock a few pins down for the good of your team?
* * * *
Basketball practice has started for the freshmen this week even
though the gym is full of drama equipment and choir members getting
their pictures taken. Monday, the first day of practice, was also the
day that the choir got a group picture taken. Basketball practice was
halted early to clear the floor for the choir, although a couple players
were shooting baskets at the opposite end of the court. Not being
qualified to judge a musicians motives, I can only speculate why Dr.
Robert 'Berglund, the head of the choir, stopped these fellows from
shooting: either he was afraid the eyes of the choir members would go
up and down during the pictures, or he was making a soundtrack at the
same time the pictures were being taken.
* *
While attending the fantastic performance of the Everyman Players
as they presented "The Book of Job" last Friday evening, it suddenly
dawned on me that Job, unlike his friends and family, was not a fair-weather
fan.
Last Saturday afternoon eigl-A Bethel boys went to Como Park to
play touch football with a team from St. Paul Bible School. St. Paul
Bible showed up with twenty-four players and even some spectators.
It was rumored that they had been practicing together everyday for
a month just to beat Bethel. (Maybe it was their homecoming game.)
Anyhow, they wanted to play two 45 minute halves; a move which
was interpreted as a way to tire Bethel players since there were only
eight of them.
St. Paul Bible seems to have lost to this unorganized group of
students from Bethel by the close score of 12-7. This editor extends his
sympathy to the team from St. Paul Bible and hopes that they will
challenge Bethel again sometime — after they practice a little longer.
Individual times improve
though harriers succumb
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18-0
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page 6 the CLARION Friday, October 24, 1969
lattameetata
Intramural Football Results
October 18, 1969
Second New vs. First Floor
Pit vs. Third Old
Third New vs. Second Old
Falcon vs. New Dorm
Off Campus vs. Faculty
Standings
Team
Win
1. Falcon 6
2. Off Campus 5
3. Second New 4
4. Faculty 4
5. First Floor 3
6. Pit 3
7. Third New 2
8. Second Old
1
9. New Dorm 1
10. Third Old 0
October 25
Second New vs. Second Old
Make up game 8:30
by Rich Zaderaka
For one half Saturday Bethel
played good football against Huron
College. But it wasn't enough.
Huron won its first victory of the
season 55-27. The Royal gridders
scored 27 points in the first half,
more than the total number they
had scored in their five previous
games, but a second half letdown
cost them the victory.
On the second play from scrim-mage,
Dave Pound grabbed a Mur-ray
Sitte pass and raced 78 yards
to the four yard line. One play
later, Barry Anderson rammed into
the end zone from the two for
the first score. Pound and Sitte
also scored first quarter touch-downs
as Bethel took a 21-14 lead.
Bethel's field hockey team is
still chasing victory and those hot
fudge sundaes. In a game against
the Universtity of Wisconsin at
River Falls the Bethel women lost
4-0. That looks bad, but actually
the defense did a supurb job. It
could have been much worse. The
River Falls team had previously
beaten St. Catherines 10-0. Jean
Westwater, goalie, did a good job,
keeping out the majority of the
shots.
Last Thursday in freezing, snowy
weather the Bethel women played
Carleton College at Northfield.
Carleton has always boasted a good
team and the game was a real bat-
In the second period, Cal Harfst
booted field goals of 25 yards and
28 yards, matching a Huron touch-down
and conversion failure, and
giving the Royals a 27-20 halftime
lead.
The second half was all Huron.
Scoring 15 points in the third quar-ter
and 20 in the fourth they made
the final tally 55-27.
Except for a few mistakes, the
victory could easily have been
Bethel's. Three pass interceptions
in Royal territory gave Huron op-portunities
which they capitalized
upon. The Royals had more first
downs than Huron, 16 against 13,
but Huron held a slight advantage
in total yardage, 403 to Bethel's
367.
tle with neither side scoring. The
first half belonged to Bethel, play
was offensive, and there were se-veral
scoring threats. The second
half was all Carleton and it was
to the defensive team's credit that
no goals were scored.
Bob Olsen headed the rushing
attack with 94 yards in 16 carries.
Pound and Anderson led in pass
yardage with 7 for 139 and 4 for
53 respectively. Dan Brown and
Jeff Knighton gave fine perform-ances
on kick returns, and the
defensive effort was led by Perry
Johnson, Larry Van Epps, Greg
Ekbom, and Dennis Sjogren.
In tomorrow's homecoming con-test
the Royals challenge North-western
of Iowa. Northwestern,
currently on top of their confer-ence,
has an offense which runs
and passes well, and a defense
which is particularly strong against
a running game. Bethel will have
to put two good halves together in
order to win.
Mrs. Wilson, the team's coach,
feels that Bethel has a good chance
to pull off a victory in their two
remaining games. Monday the team
plays St. Catherine's again a n d
Tuesday Bethel faces the Univer-isty
of Minnesota.
Last Saturday, the Royal cross
country team took twelvth place
out of thirteen possible at the St.
Cloud Invitational Cross Country
meet.
Held at the St. Cloud Country
Club, the meet brought together
some of the finest teams in the
Midwest. Bethel usually tries to
attend a couple of these meets to
give the runners a chance to par-ticipate
_against outstanding com-petition
and to try to improve upon
personal performances.
St. John's, which is rated as
having a very good chance to win
the National Cross Country Meet
later this year, took first place fol-lowed
by South Dakota State, St.
Cloud, Augsburg, and Macalester.
Other teams that participated are
as follows in their respective order
of placement in the meet: Bemidji
State, Moorhead, St. Thomas,
Southwest State, Golden Valley,
Duluth, Bethel, and Gustavus Adol-phus.
This afternoon at 4:00, the Royals
host Winona in the homecoming
cross country meet. The Warriors
from Winona are a strong team
with four exceptionally good run-ners.
They will provide tough corn-petition.
However, the Royals have
been training long and hard for
this one, and say they won't come
back empty-handed.
Although as a team the Royals
were not very impressive at St.
Cloud, they did have a couple of
personal time improvements.
Dwight Carlson ran the four mile
distance in 22:05, his best ever,
and Mark Anderson covered the
course in 22:25, also his best.
Paul Youngquist ran his typically
good race in 23:04. Rich Swanson,
who is usually a top contender in
most of the meets, was sick and
unable to make the meet. Had he
been able to be there the team
standing might have improved a
little. Coach Glader stated that the
meet gave the boys a chance to
prove themselves against opponents
which were "simply out of Bethel's
class".
Girls' fieldhockey team is looking for
first victory after dropping two games
Eedeekot Eaftrat e‘cele‘
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam

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Bruce Mulligan, co-chairman of Homecoming Committee,
hands Karen Nelson, 1969-70 Queen the traditional Homecoming
Proclamation at the Coronation ceremonies Thursday evening.
the CLARION Riggswilllecture
for UN Day Mon.
Plans for interim this year are
continually receiving more distinct
articulation. Course descriptions
have been compiled and the interim
committee and members of the
administration are attempting to
clarify what may seem to be a
rather complex financial aspect.
The cost of participating in the
interim program this January de-depends
upon how you are regis-tered
for the year. There will be
no extra charge if you are en-rolled
for both semesters. If you
are enrolled neither semester, par-ticipation
in a 3-credit course costs
$120-$140 per credit; room and
board fees are $67.50, or $22.50 per
week. If you are enrolled for one
semester of the academic year,
tuition and room and board are
half-rate; $60 and $33.75, respec-tively.
If you are not registered in in-terim,
application for housing must
be submitted to the Dean of Stu-dents,
Webster C. Muck. The ap-plications
will be approved only
if the student is working full-time.
The room and board fees in this
case, are $67.50.
Following are brief descriptions
of the interim courses:
INTERIM TERM COMMITTEE
REPORT
Course Descriptions
Curricular Changes in American
Higher Education: a study of cur-rent
trends in college curricular
programs. The historical social
backgrounds of curriculum devel-opment
together with the contem-porary
challenge to learning will
be reviewed. What place does lib-
You may have noticed—or signed
—a petition other than the one
printed in the Clarion two weeks
ago. The second petition that made
the rounds on Bethel's campus
was not, according to Rolland
Shearer, one of its authors, meant
to be a counter action.
In spite of the opinions of many
members of the Bethel Communi-ty,
the petition was intended to
be purely positive. Dr. Arthur
Lewis, professor of Christianity,
and a number of other Bethel
students realized the need for a
eral arts study have in today's
technological world? Are curricu-lum-
calendar innovations — tri-semester,
4-1-4 para-colleges—aids
to modern education? What are
the educational effects of small
group specialized seminars for
freshmen?
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Seeing, Knowing, and Believing:
a study of perception from the art-ists'
point of view that will de-velop
the theme that vision is
more than eyes. It is perceptual
and conceptual; it is retinal as
well as mental; it is personal as
well as social. Vision is seeing,
knowing, and believing — and such
a theme will be developed through
the arts of painting, sculpture,
and architecture. The course will
develop around the theme that art
is a history of vision, with a major
emphasis on Modern Art as the
vision of our time.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an Art
major but it is not a substitute
for Art 101.
Enrollment limit: 70
Printmaking: an introduction to
relief printing including studio
work in collage, linoleum, woodcut,
cardboard, and color printing on
single and multiple blocks.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an
Art major.
Ecology and Man: designed to
stimulate interest in and a con-cern
for the place that man has
day like the Moratorium, but were
dissatisfied with the overtones
which were anti-government. The
students felt the fact that the gov-ernment
is withdrawing t r o o p s
should be recognized.
According to Shearer, the stu-dents
realize that there is a lot
more to be accomplished, but due
to the fact that there has been
some de-escalation, the Moratori-um
day should not have had an
anti-administration emphasis. The
day could have been spent in pray-in
his environment. Special em-phasis
upon the human popula-tion,
growth and food problems,
irradiation and human evolution,
air and water pollution, and pre-servation
of man's environment.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Spectroscopy: an introduction to
the spectroscopic techniques, inter-pretation,
and instrumentation in
the areas of nuclear magnetic re-sonance,
infrared, ultra-violet/vis-ible,
mass spectroscopy and some
X-ray analysis. The course will
show the basic unity of the vari-ous
methods and show how they
are best utilized in the study of
chemical structures and chemical
reactions. An adequate knowledge
of spectroscopy is basic to the
education of a chemist.
Prerequisites: Chem 211
Credits may be applied to a
Chemistry major.
Chemical Research: an introduc-tion
to chemical research. The
course involves the study of a
chemical system heretofore unstud-ied
which requires a literature
search, a program of attack, and
execution of the study. This would
involve synthesis of compounds,
and physical and chemical studies
of these compounds. A report is
required written in chemical jour-nal
form. This course may be a
continuation of work begun dur-ing
the previous semester.
Prerequisites: Consent of the
chemistry faculty.
Credits may be applied to a
cont'd on page 4
er to a much better advantage,
said Shearer.
The petition which was signed by
130 students and faculty stated: "In
support of the use of October 15th
as a day for prayerful reflection
and open discussion of the war in
Vietnam, we affirm our confide ,-Ice
in the U.S. government's expressed
intention and active work to es-tablish
a peaceful settlement of
the war at the Paris Conference
Table and to effect the withdrawal
of our troops by the end of 1970."
by Toni Magnuson
Beginning with the movie "The
Hidden Crisis" on the Congo Thurs-day
morning, Bethel students par-ticipated
in the first phase of their
observance and support of World-wide
United Nations Day.
October 24 was officially made
UN Day with a resolution passed
two years after the organization
legally came into existence on Oc-tober
24, 1945. It is a day which
"shall be devoted to making known
to the people of the world the aims
and achievement of the United Na-tions
and to gain their support for
the work of the United Nations."
At Bethel specifically, the main
purpose of the day shall be world
orientation and familiarizing the
students with the work of the UN.
Due to conflicts in homecoming
activities, the main emphasis will
take place on Monday, Oct. 27
rather than the official day.
Robert E. Riggs, Associate Pro-fessor
of Political Science at the
University of Minnesota will be the
guest lecturer at 3:00 in the Sem-inary
Hall Chapel. Having written
the text Forging World Order and
other works pertaining to inter-national
and United States affairs,
Professor Riggs is considered an
expert on UN organizations and
shall speak on the UN's role in
today's world.
This Student Senate sponsored
activity is open to everyone and
Senate members urge all students
to participate. A question and an-swer
time will follow, giving any-one
interested a chance to discuss
with Professor Riggs the UN's ac-tions
and possibly discover if this
"Ideal" can really work.
The Student Senate took on the
UN Day project with primary pur-pose
of "world-orienting" Bethel
students and showing them the
true significance and role of this
world organization.
Various Senate members have
found that students aren't really
aware of the UN's functions and
see it merely as something which
won't work. A typical response
from a Bethel student when asked
his opinion on the UN was, "I
plead ignorance on the subject
. . . but from what I know, I see it
as a fairly inefficient organiza-tion."
"We want to show that the UN
is more than people think it is."
said senior Tom Mesaros, a history
and political science major and
coordinator of UN Day activities.
"Too many are judging it without
any background, or are merely
looking at it on the big power level
instead of seeing its significance
as a whole."
Why is it necessary for us to
be informed about the United Na-tions?
One student expressed that
"we should be seeking to become
informed on anything we can. And
as Christians, it is up to us to be-come
involved in learning about
other people. How else can you
expect to help them if you aren't
aware of their needs and problems
first?"
"We should be interested enough
as students to take one day—or
even just one hour to become
world-oriented," said Tom Mesaros.
"None of us will ever learn any-thing
without first making the ef-fort
to try to learn something."
U Thant, Secretary-General of
the United Nation's sees youth's
role as a very important one. "The
young generation of today will soon
inherit the United Nations as a
legacy embodying the fondest
hopes of the generation that pre-ceded
them. They should recognize
that the United Nations represents
all the principles and ideals young
people are striving for and that it
is their best opportunity to realize
them.
Their goal should be a world
where the whole of mankind can
go forward with an understanding,
a skill and a generosity which will
vastly enrich the quality and dig-nity
of their lives."
Vol. XLV—No. 8
Bethel College, St. Paul Minn. Friday, October 24, 1969
Interim courses and costs outlined
Students and faculty reaffirm faith in government
Are mid-semester tests and papers getting you down?
ectx
by Tom Ford
ebapet Pote5
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
A Monday series on Christian
Morality continuing for 3 weeks
will be introduced this week by Dr.
Stanley Anderson. The subject will
be "Is Situation Ethics Christian?"
Students in the History and Po-litical
Science department will pre-sent
a Reformation Day program
on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the
Pastor will continue his messages
from Mark with the subject, 'With
a Note of Authority." NEW will
furnish the music.
On Thursday, Professor Robert
Nelson will give a multi-media pre-sentation
that he has prepared for
the opening session of the Wiscon-sin
Education Association meeting
in Milwaukee. "The McLuhan Age
—Anyone Under Thirty" will in-volve
the use of six slide projec-tors,
two movie films, and two
closed-circuit T-V cameras. Presi-dent
Carl Lundquist will speak at
the Friday worship service.
Bethel
Forum
Asa Christ a lark?
To the editor:
Following the Vietnam Moratori-um
an article appeared in the Min-neapolis
Star telling of two New
Jersey High School students who
committed suicide because "too
many people were treating the
Moratorium as just a lark."
How many of us are ever both-ered
by the fact that there are
"Christians" all around us treating
Jesus Christ as just a lark?
Toni Magnuson
Soviet students
try moratorium
Dear editor:
I know you will be interested in
this news item I picked up while
travelling in Europe this summer:
_ MOSCOW: It is now known
that on April 7th of this year a
Moratorium on Czechoslovakia
was declared by the Soviet As-sociation
of Students (SAS) to
protest the presence of the Rus-sian
army in the Free State
of Czechoslovakia. Four univer-sity
students participated in the
ceremonies. All four are now in
Siberia completing their studies.
Art Lewis
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami- .
nation periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor in chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marjorie Rusche
Sports Editor Tim Weko
Copy Editors Toni Magnuson
Missy McCool
Layout Editor Ruth Bogle
Proofreaders Ann Dalton
Sharon Watson
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Photographer Ray Smith
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
page 2
the CLARION Friday, October 24, 1969
Does music dept. represent
Bethel's image accurately?
"You would be amazed at the number of students who hear of
Bethel for the first time as a result of the tours by the various musical
performance groups". This was the statement made in the last Dean's
Staff meeting by James Bragg, head of Financial Aids, Admissions and
Recruitment.
"We have an unusually loyal Constituency,' Bragg again. "Last year
we recruited a freshman class of 330 with a recruiter who started
working in February. Down Snelling a few miles Macalester enrolled a
record froshmen class of 430 with the aid of six recruiters and substantial
financial endorsement."
Obviously, the music department through our constituency must
be doing Bethel college quite a service. Or are they? Are they repre-senting
to the constituents, alumni, and particularly the prospective
students what Bethel is really all about?
The Clarion has had several complaints this semester concerning
the question of whether the paper is representing the true Bethel image.
"Do you really believe that most of the students on this campus agree
with the policies upheld by Chuck Myrbo?" The question came from
Julius Whittinger, head of the music department, on the second day of
my editorship. I was instructed that it was my responsibility as an editor
to both represent and guide the students on this campus.
My reply to the question was that if he believed the Clarion did not
accurately represent the views of the majority of students on campus
that he find some who endorsed the views he throught more closely
represent Bethel College, and I would be happy to give them a voice.
I waited. Almost a month went by. No students of the type described
by Whittinger appeared.
About a month later, Dean Virgil Olsen approached me in the
coffee shop one afternoon to comment that he had attended a meeting
of the music faculty recently and that there had been complaint of the
coverage in the Clarion. Olson thought it might be a good idea to suggest
to Julius Whittinger that if he was dissatisfied, he might try finding
someone who could give him the coverage he desired.
A few more weeks went by and the Clarion news editor, for various
reasons, decided to drop her newly acquired music major and return to
political science. This process required an interview with Dr. Robert
Berglund who, coincidentally, wanted to interview her.
The conversation focused basically around Berglund's choice of
topic which included the quality of the Clarion and its roll on Bethel's
campus. Berglund expressed the opinion that "the Clarion had been of
rather poor quality in recent years and that it had not appropriately
reflected the temper or quality of a Christian college." When presented
with the fact that the Clarion has received All American ratings for
the past year and one half, he shrugged, saying that any paper with as
many typographical errors as the Clarion was high school caliber.
He also mentioned that Chuck Myrbo was not qualified to be fine
arts editor since he did not have the appropriate cultural perspective.
It was his conviction that Myrbo emphasized "pop music" too strongly
and was not upgrading the low cultural level of the Bethel community.
The conversation closed with the mutual agreement that the Clarion
would initiate a fine arts section covering art, drama, theater, films, pop,
and classical music. Berglund promised to contact music students who
would and could write reviews of both pop and classical concerts for the
Clarion. The Clarion office has, to say the least, not been overwhelmed
by music students with concert reviews.
The student newspaper is not the only area of communications with
which Berglund has been in contact. Not long ago, WBCS was offered
asistance in obtaining additional finances—about 20 times what they
now receive—if they would begin playing more classical music. Along
with the offer came the warning that if they did not comply, the station
would not be on the air long. According to Mark Kingsbeck, head of
WBCS, Berglund promised to send some of his music students down to
help with programming. They waited and waited as long as time would
permit and finally went ahead on their own and haven't seen a music
student yet.
It is not the purpose of this editorial to personally attack any one
member of the music department, but to question the public image
which Bethel is putting forth.
It must be evident that due to the lack of response on the part of
students in the music department that either the music faculty are grossly
misjudging the areas in which student interests lie, or that students in
the music department are among those timid bookish parasites on
campus against which this editor has been haranguing all semester.
If the former alternative is the case, it is really quite dishonest
of the college to continue presenting the public with a distorted image
of the Bethel commuinty. After all, Bethel consists largely of students
rather than faculty. The institution supposedly exists for and of the
students, therefore in order to present a true picture of what Bethel is,
the public image should present the students in their true light.
If the later is the case, heaven help us! We are sending the dead
weight of the campus to publically represent us.
In an interview with James Bragg earlier this semester, he expressed
concern over the question of whether Bethel is being accurately rep-resented
to prospective students. This was one of the reasons he gave
for the consolidation of Recruitment, Admissions, and Financial Aids.
Intregration would present the opportunity for follow-up to discover
whether Bethel was what students had expected.
It seems evident that if the major portion of public contact is
made through the music department, the public is not receiving an
accurate image of "where Bethel is at." If our constituency and alumni
are as loyal as circumstances seem to suggest, are we not being unfair
in showing them a distorted image. We have nothing of which to be
ashamed—unless it be the dead weight described previously. Should
we not exercise our trust?
If the public is to receive a true picture of Bethel students, either
the music department should update itself in student affairs, or the
community should begin utilizing in public relations its other fertile
resources such as art, drama, athletics, student communications and
government.
THE POLICY OF VIETNAMIZATION
The Nixon Administration took office last January with a full under-standing
of its major task — to disengage the United States from the
war in Vietnam. Now, ten full months later, Vietnamizing the war has
become our foreign policy.
The problem for Mr. Nixon is complex. First, he must gain enough
of the people's confidence to pursue a policy that remains shrouded
in secrecy. Then, he must effectively judge the level of enemy activity
in order to direct the removal of American forces. Finally, he must find
a route to peace in Southeast Asia that will not cause a backlash of
public opinion aimed at his administration.
The program to Vietnamize the war is two-fold. The first portion
is the removal of our combat forces from the war zone. The second
portion is the rebuilding of the South Vietnamese army so that they
are capable of carrying the burden of combat. It is clear that the
President's policy will attempt to prevent a Communist victory after our
withdrawal.
The speed of our withdrawal is conditioned by both the level of
Communist activity and the fighting ability of the South Vietnamese.
The present lack of intensive fighting is not as good an indicator as
might be, though. Many members of the Administration fear that this
is a part of Hanoi's strategy; a low level of combat will speed American
withdrawal, leaving the ARVN at the hands of fresh VC forces.
Mindful of what might happen, Mr. Nixon has decided to keep his
plan for withdrawal both flexible and secret. Within this frame of
reference, it may be possible to understand the President's comments
regarding the Vietnam Moratorium. To forgive them is a different matter;
surely they will be used against him many times.
The program to strengthen the ARVN will probably take two or
three years. It will also involve the giving of advanced weaponry to the
South. The goal of this effort would be to give Saigon an adequate
war machine with which to hold off the Viet Cong.
Though few realize it, the policy of Vietnamization would not bring
a total end to our military presence in Vietnam. Some 250,000 troops,
about one-half of our present troop level would remain for a period
of a few years. These would not be fighting men; they would be the
supply troops that presently keep our war effort going.
The South Vienamese have never had an adequate system for the
supply and support of its fighting units. We assumed that role in the
middle sixties. A major portion of the program to build up the ARVN
would be directed towards this area, but until the South Vietnamese
can replace them, American logistical forces will have to remain.
In the meantime, the American government works for a peace
settlement in Paris. But since we are not in a position to dictate terms,,
emphasis has been shifted from the peace table to the policy of Vietnam-ization.
From the perspective of the White House, the war will continue
after we disengage; its outcome will largely depend upon the way we
disengage. To Mr. Nixon, the best way to disengage is to build a South
Vietnamese military machine that can fight the war without our direct
military participation. Given the proper combination of factors —
Hanoi's behavior, the mood of the American people, the ability of the
ARVN, and finally, time — it could prove to be a feasible answer to the
problem.
But there are alternatives to the President's policy, and next week
we will begin an examination of three of them.
After his speech, concluding
Bethel's homecoming activities Sat-urday
night, Dr. Ramm will meet
for an informal session with par-ents
in the Bodien Dormitory
lounge.
This year's Homecoming speaker,
Dr. Ramm, is a well-known theo-logian
in orthodox Christian cir-cles.
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Homecoming Queen Dr. Ramm, noted theologian, will speak by Kathy Quick
Dr. Bernard Ramm, Bethel's
homecoming speaker, is, in the
opinion of one Bethel student, one
of the five or six most brilliant
men in orthodox Christian circles.
With a broad background of train-ing
and experience in theology, Dr.
Ramm is well qualified to speak
on the dehumanization of man.
Since his strong point is modern
contemporary theology, Dr. Ramm's
homecoming presentation on "A
Christian View of Man in an Age
of Despersonalization" should be
quite relevant to the modern world.
His presentation Sat. night at 7:30
in Bethel's fieldhouse is his only
one in the Twin Cities, so the pub-lic
is urged to attend along with
Bethel students and faculty.
Dr. Ramm's return to Bethel for
our 1969 Homecoming will truly
be a homecoming for him. He form-erly
served as a Professor of Theol-ogy
at the Bethel Seminary. After
leaving Bethel he assumed a posi-tion
as Profesor of Religion and
Director of Graduate Studies at
Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Dr. Ramm is presently serving
as Professor of Systematic Theol-ogy
and Christian Apologetics at
California Baptist Theological Sem-inary
in Covina, California.
Among his literary achievements,
Dr. Ramm has written ten books
concerning various aspects of
Christian Apologetics, Hernemeu-tics,
and theology, and an analysis
of the Christian college in the
twentieth century.
He is consulting editor for the
well known Christian magazines
Eternity, Christianity Today, and
the Watchman-Examiner.
Dr. Ramm has published articles
in several dictionaries of theology,
the World Book Encyclopedia, and
essays in Revelation and the Bible
and Basic Christian Doctrines.
Friday, October 24, 1969 the CLARION page 3
Last night, at semi-formal ceremonies in the fieldhouse, junior Karen
Anne Nelson was crowned 1969-70 Homecoming Queen. The affair was
the highlight of the evening following the drama production of the
"Adding Machine."
Karen Nelson came to Bethel as a freshman to "find out what Christ-ian
education was like. I didn't know much about Bethel, and had only
visited here one day when I came."
When Karen was asked to evaluate Bethel now that she is in her
third year here, she commented that students can find freedom at Bethel.
According to Karen, many students are "uptight" but are only stifled
because of "self". They could get out of their rut if they wanted to. "They
are still relying too much on other people and other people's values."
Bethel offers many opportunities to get off campus, she continued. You
don't have to be put in a box if you don't want to. Then she added "I
love the professors because they are really concerned."
Karen is an elmentary education major who has a particular interest
in special education, such as work with the mentally retarded or children
who need speech therapy.
When asked about life in general and her goals, Karen said, "I'd like
to live to the fullest and be the best person I can through Christ's help.
I want to be a worthwhile person both in my profession and as a wife
and mother."
To Karen, the purpose of Homecoming is primarily a social affair and
for alumni. "I wonder why it couldn't be more a week of questioning."
"Homecoming gets a lot of support, but not necessarily support that
is concerned." It's more a "big, wild, noncommittal support." Kids go to
homecoming because everyone goes.
Karen hopes while alumni are on campus this year, that they will
realize athletic scholarships are necessary if Bethel is going to be able to
offer an education that ministers to the whole person. "It is important
that we can hold our heads up with non-Christian schools and show that
Christians aren't "namby-pamby."
As far as being queen, Karen said she feels that there is a respon-sibility
to represent Bethel, "and in a small way a Christian campus. But
the biggest honor for me," she said, "was being chosen as a homecoming
candidate by my class."
Karen Nelson, junior, was crowned Homecoming Queen Thursday
night.
Homecoming Pep Fest features Skydiving Show
To send both fans and football
team off to the game in "high"
spirits, the homecoming committee
has arranged for an exhibition by
three members of the Twin Eagle
Skydiving School. Jim Marshall,
member of the Minnesota Vikings
football team and also a diver, will
be present as master of ceremon-ies.
The three sky divers will have
orange smoke flares attached to
their hands and feet and will jump
from a height of 12,500 feet free-falling
a rate of 200 miles per hour
before their shutes open at about
2500 feet 21/2 - 3 minutes be-fore
they land in Lake Valentine.
The divers' maneuvers will be ex-plained
on the ground by Jim Mar-shall.
The Twin Eagles Skydiving
school, which claims over 800 mem-bers,
is the only such school in
Minnesota. The three members par-ticipating
in the exhibition on Sat-urday
are Don Wander, a biology
teacher from North High School,
Jim Zehner, who is training as a
commercial pilot for North Cent-ral
Airlines, and Lan Wells, head
instructor and director of the
school.
An interview with Director Wells
revealed there is a lot more to sky-diving
than jumping out of a plane.
It is almost a philosophy on life.
According to Wells, skydiving re-veals
a person's individual char-acter.
There is always a fear of
jumping. A skydiver never over-
Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's a member of the skydiving team from
the Twin Eagle Skydiving School.
comes it. In beginners it is a fear
of the unknown. In pros it turns
to apprehension as they gain a
realization of all the possibilities
of what could go wrong.
Wells said that his motivation for
skydiving came from the satisfac-tion
that he gains in overcoming
his own fear. He also likes to ob-serve
people's reactions to the
jumps.
Wells calls the jump a "soul-cleansing
experience." "You really
become aware of what faith is," he
said. "You learn your personal
weaknesses and become aware of
how insignificant you really are.
You learn to face the possibility
of death."
Wallendorf chosen alumnus of year
Selected to receive the fifth
alumnus of the year award is Paul
E. Wallendorf, who graduated from
the Bethel Academy in 1925 and in
1968 assumed the title treasurer of
General Electric. He and his wife
will be guests of the alumni council
for Homecoming activities Satur-day.
According to John Carlson, alum-ni
director, Paul Wallendorf "is
the first member of the business
community to be selected since
this award was established by the
Council in 1965."
After graduating from Bethel,
Wallendorf went on to receive a
business degree from Northwestern
University in 1931. He became a
certified public accountant and
joined General Electric. In May of
1968 he assumed the responsibili-ties
of domestic and international
financing for that corporation.
Wallendorf is a member of the
President's Associates, a group
composed of professional and man-agement
people who form an ad-visory
council to Dr. Carl Lund-quist
and the Board of Education.
Wallendorf and his wife are re-sponsible
for the Barbara Wallen-dorf
Memorial Scholarsrip estab-lished
in memory of a daughter.
His father, Rev. Gustaf E. Wal-lendorf,
served Conference church-es
throughout the country in Mich-igan,
Illinois, Connecticut, Kansas,
Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
during this lifetime. His sister, Mrs.
T. L. Hartsell, taught at Bethel
Academy in the 1920's.
Wallendorf and his wife now re-side
in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Paul E. Wallendorf, treasurer of
General Electric, was chosen 1969-
70 alumnus of year.
What comes down hopefully comes back up again. Find out for
yourself at the Pep Fest tomorrow morning.
page 4 the CLARION
Friday, October 24, 1969
Apartment life is 'great!'
by Sherie Lindvall
Deep wine curtains, knee high
tables, huge floor pillows, oriental
silk screens and the faint aroma
of sandlewood in the air. An opium
den? Guess again. It's one of the
apartments housing Bethel bach-elors
this year.
Nearly half of Bethel's men are
finding housekeeping among their
learning experiences as they em-bark
on the "apartment life." Due
to a lack of available housing on
campus, academics and athletics
are being teamed with cooking and
cleaning.
After one month of dinners,
dishes and the chores of house-keeping
the reports from our men
off-campus are good. A 21 year
old senior commented about apart-ment
living: "It's great! We really
have a riot and we can have some-one
in whenever we want and love
the privacy. Come on over and take
a look!" (I did stop in for a minute
but have no fear, I'm a Bethel
girl.)
The cost of living off-campus is
about the same as room and board
costs at Bethel. Apartments are
available from $130 to $160 a
month and food expenses range
from $5 to $7 a week per resident.
Senior Gary McCann reported: "We
really eat pretty well; yesterday
we had pork roast, yams, and blue-berry
pie for dessert."
In a number of apartment situa-tions,
the household tasks are per-formed
jointly to avoid unneces-sary
tensions and give everyone a
chance at the "gourmet routine".
All the students visited and in-terviewed
had a very positive opin-ion
concerning the independent
apartment life. "It's a good place
to start to get along on your own,
especially for students who are
close to graduation."
Parents, administrators and peers
who seriously doubted the capa-bilities
of college men living in-dependently
and away from cam-pus
can relax; several participants
in the off-campus experiment chor-us:
"all is well!" Skeptics will
also appreciate this last note. Gary
McCann, Carl Carlson and Denny
Whitlock, occupants of a "fascinat-ing
pad," have decided to share
their fortune and every Sunday
night invite 'several dorm men
over for dinner so they might get
acquainted with on-campus men.
Gary McCann (center) and roommates dine on one of their "home
cooked" meals.
Editor's note: The following editorial is a response provoked
by an article printed in the monthly Bethel College Music Journal
put out by students in the Music Department and reprinted here.
In light of the fact that we as Christians are continually searching
for ways to make our faith more relevant, the article and the
response touch upon an issue vital to this community and therefore
find their place in the CLARION.
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." (Col. 3:16)
One of the alarming signs of the times is the invasion by the
world and the popular music field into the realm of religious and
sacred music. Recording companies have begun to "package" devotional
songs ��� adapting them to the swing-beat and syncopation of the bar-room.
One "big time" producer claims that secularizing sacred music
is "the greatest groove since rock and roll." As a result of this type of
recording business, Gospel music is now being sung in night clubs,
taverns, and dance halls across the land. All of this is a symptom of
deterioration — of the breakdown between the sacred and the secular.
Nothing stirs up my righteous anger like hearing some clowning enter-tainer
swing Gospel songs and even Scriptural choruses.
Even more serious than the use of Gospel music by the world,
however, is THE GROWING EVIL OF USING WORLDLY MUSIC IN
OUR EVANGELICAL CIRCLES! Gospel music is designed to teach the
gospel. The jazzing of sacred music by Gospel comedians is nauseating
and regrettable. Why don't we stick to the "psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs" of Ephesians 5:19? If the music in our churches has no real
message in it, why sing it? We cannot stop the world from using and
debauching Gospel music; but we can stop the world's music from
being used in Christian churches.
THOT: Instead of the church being a saving salt in the world, the
world has become a corrupting leaven in the church!
M.R.D.
Dear M.R.D., whoever you are,
Isaiah 12:5 "Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously, let
this be known in all the earth."
What is "worldly" music? What is "sacred" music? What is "the
church", "the world"?
It usually helps to define or understand what something is before
you declare it "good" or "evil".
Of course, we want to base our definitions or understandings of
concepts on what Christ and the Bible says, being Jesus-people.
The church, according to Scriptural definition, is the body of
believers in Christ. This body of believers does not exclusively exist
in the physical structure of a church building. Indeed, given the ante-dated
and deteriorated state of the institutional church today, I would
tend to believe that there are more Jesus-people outside of the institu-tionalized
church than in it.
The world. "Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you."-
Rms. 3:13. From this verse, I would infer that the "world" and the
"church" — body of believers in Christ — are two antithetical and
diametrically opposed entities. However, if we look at the situation
today, the "church" and the "world" are not antithetical, but integrated.
The physical, institutional church fosters and promotes (either implicity
or explicity) the values (materialism, self-rigtheousness, hypocrisy,
bigotry, intolerance, etc.) which help keep the rest of the establishment
(political, social, economic, power-structure) running.
This is because the institutional church of today has perverted the
values and ideals expressed by Jesus Christ, his followers, and the
early church; which were love, humility, peace, brotherhood, economic
communism, etc.
Now to the music part of this essay. As Dr. Berglund said in a
Clarion letter to the editor last fall, "Notes are notes". Quite true.
There are no sacred or secular notes, no good or evil notes.
The value of notes is derived from the way in which they are asso-ciated
and the way we perceive and associate them with ideas and/or
other notes. Music exists on a critical, intellectual level due to the com-poser's
patterning of particular notes, or style. It also exists on a cul-tural,
emotional, subjective level due to the perceivers experiences, asso-ciations,
emotions, and personality.
Thus, "sacred" and "secular" music are not absolute forms but are
relative classifications of works of art starting from the same material,
notes.
Hymns of the early church were sung to "folk" melodies. There
is a strong possibility that these melodies were incorporated into the
"sacred" Roman Catholic liturgical chants. (See Grout, A History of
Western Music, p. 7.)
In medieval times, and during the Renaissance and later periods,
the line between "sacred" and "secular" was extremely thin. Motets
freely intermingled vernacular and Latin, "sacred" and "secular" themes
and lyrics. Luther adapted some of his great hymns from German folk
songs. "0 Sacred Head Now Wounded" was originally a love song.
So, why do some people get "uptight" when they hear lyrics about
Jesus with folk, rock, and/or pop melodies? It certainly isn't "sinful."
We have seen that 1.) notes are notes 2.) the mixing of "sacred" and
"secular" music is not a phenomena peculiar to this decade.
Using current music, art, and communications forms to present
Christ and his message is definitely a good thing; not a "growing evil."
The current generation of kids — and some members of the older
generation — simply will not listen to "traditional church music." They
find the current musical forms more involving, meaningful, and aesthe-tically
pleasing than the forms that the institutional church is currently
using. Although this fact may be anathema to traditional church musi-cians,
it is none-the-less a fact.
Does this mean we should educate the current generation "up to our
level," make sure we develop "appropriate" philosophies of music edu-cation?
No. The level we are dealing with when discussing the matter
of using "secular" music in the church or "secular" music to "evangel-ize"
is the cultural, emotional, psychological level. At this level anyone's
judgement is equally as valid as our own — regardless of age, race,
sex, or degree.
To gain an audience, you must communicate with people in their
language. You cannot tell a Frenchman how you feel about Jesus when
he cannot understand English and you cannot speak French.
You cannot tell a "hippie" how you feel about Jesus when he does
not understand the phrases you use, the meanings of the words you
use ((i.e. "saved", "new birth", "sin", "redemption") or the style of
music you use. You cannot fulfill the Great Commission (Go ye into all
the world . . .) if you cannot understand the language or music of the
"hippie"; or, thinking you understand it, you refuse to deal with it
because "hippies" are our own American "heathens" and you might
become "tainted" by trying to communicate with them.
You are killing musical creativity in the church by sticking to the
old, established, traditional forms of music and excluding any other
forms. Music becomes ritual instead of a creative, stimulating, dynamic
experience. When was the last time you thought about the meaning
of the words you were singing instead of just going through the ritual
of singing a hymn? Think of the hymn, "0 Happy Day." When my home
church sings it, they sound, look, and feel like they're half dead — not
very happy at all. Now recall the year-old platter, "0 Happy Day" by
the Edwin Hawkin Singers. It is really a joyous, spiritual rendition —
with a beat.
If you disagree or don't understand what I am saying, I am open
to two-way communication. I am not open to one-way didactic harangu-ing.
So, if you think truth can arise through rational debate, come and
talk to me, M.R.D., whoever you are. But if you think you have the
corner on truth, forget it.
Love in Christ,
Marjorie M. Rusche
Interim plans
from page 1
Chemistry major.
Study Trip to Israel: flying sem-inar
of Holy Land. Biblical sites,
excavations, etc. will be visited in
order to throw light upon Biblical
events. It is hoped that the tour
will better enable the student to
understand the arena into which
God chose to send His servants
and His Son. (The credits for up-per
division require a 5,000 word
paper.)
Prerequisites: Reading a text be-fore
we leave on archeology and
one on Biblical history and geo-graphy.
Credits may be applied to a
Christianity major or to the Christ-ianity
general arts requirement.
Schools in the Inner City: study
of the sociological problems in in-ner
city schools. Work as a teach-er's
aid with inner city children.
Prerequisites: Limiting to stu-dents
who are, or have been, in
leadership roles in the schools (e.g.
Introduction to Education assign-ments).
Credits may be applied as elec-tive
credits only.
Black Literature in U.S.: this
course will center attention on the
impressive body of literature about
the racial agony of America writ-ten
by those who had to live it.
"Black is beautiful." Readings will
be selected poetry and three or
four novels. All students will work
on a project.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an
English major.
Intensive Study of an Author,
Period, Genre or Work: the course
will acquaint the student with the
tools of literary research—bibli-ographies,
indexes, journals, and
other standard reference mater-ials.
The student will have oppor-tunity
to work in the Bethel Col-lege
library and other Twin City
area libraries. He will then choose
a topic for intensive investigation
and will prepare an annotated bib-liography.
English majors can use
the course for major credit by
participating in English Majors'
Conference.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to an
English major.
French Culture: to involve the
student in French culture—art,
music, historic traditions, politics,
science, literature, daily life by
means of lectures by visiting pro-fesors,
film and slide presentations,
student panel discusions, visits to
art museums, restaurants, social
cont'd on page 5
Pop goes the music
"Christ, you know it ain't easy"
(Uncut rebirth
, • ,
Nystedt worK organized confusion
by Chuck Myrbo
On the third (and far from the largest) planet in a small
solar system in a minor galaxie nowhere near the center of the
universe, there is intelligent life. As far as we know, there is
no life anywhere e: se. We believe that a God big enough to con-,
tain the universe put that life on this planet and called the
highest form of that life "man." He created billions of stars and
saved man for the sixth day. David asked that God: "When I
look at Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the
stars which Thou has established; what is man that Thou art
mindful of him?"
It seems to me ultimately crucial that God, faced with the
possibility of creating an entire universe from absolutely noth-ing,
chose as the culmination of that creation man; that God,
with an infinite number of possibilities before Him and no pat-ern
at all to guide Him, gave His most complex creature that
particular set of qualities which we call "being human."
So there must be something extremely valuable about being
human, something we should celebrate, something we should
make every attempt to perfect. The faults which separate us
from angels are far less important than the virtues which sep-arate
us from, say, rocking chairs. But what does it mean to
"be human?" What makes the experience worthwhile? What is
there about human beings which makes them the focus of God's
universe? From here on: an attempt to define 'the human."
First part of the attempt: when we moved to Platteville,
Wisconsin, just before my senior year in high school I met a
girl who would be, before she graduated, homecoming queen,
prom queen, girls' state representative, honor student, star in
the class play, and everyone's favorite baby sitter. I soon came
closer to loving her than I had come to loving anyone else, but
it wasn't her glory that brought me tumbling.
One night at play practice the director got on her back
about something, and kept it up until she ran off the stage
crying. Right then, for the first time, I felt really close to her.
Just when she was embarrassed to have anyone see her, I saw
her as beautiful. And something about the way weakness func-tioned
at that moment has a great deal to do with "being
human."
`Exit the King' and 'Misanthrope'
perform in Northrop Auditorium
"Always room for one more"
Garnet's Standard Service
Complete
Service
for
Your
Car
Friendly
Courteous
Conscientious
Men
Waiting
to
Serve
You
Larpenteur
St.
and Snelling
Paul
NH 4-2027
Hey man, what's during interim?
from page 4
events with people of French back-ground.
Course presented in Eng-lish.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
German House: intensive use of
German in formal as well as in-formal
settings. A study of present-day
Germany with the help of
German guests, films, and library
material. Informal activities will
include eating meals together, re-creation,
music, plays, visits to
German homes.
Prerequisites: One year of col-lege
German or two years of high
school German.
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Spanish House: emphasis on
Spanish conversation with trips to
Mexican restaurants, guest speak-ers,
singing in Spanish, study of
Latin American culture and social
life.
Prerequisites: One year of col-lege
Spanish or two years of high
school Spanish.
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Intro to Computer Programming:
basic FORTRAN computer lang-uage
with extensions. Programming
applications to natural and social
sciences.
Prerequisites: Junior year of
high school mathematics.
Credits may be applied to Math
major.
Understandings of Man: a study
of the nature of man from the
viewpoints of Huxley, Buber, Teil-hard,
Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard,
and Reinhold Neibuhr through
primary reading and class discus-sion.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to Phil-osophy
major or to the Christian-ity
general arts requirement.
Psychology of Sports: this course
will be a seminar-research type
by Marjorie M. Rusche
As a part of their centennial
celebration, Augsburg College host-ed
a concert at Northrup Auditor-ium
last Sunday, presenting the
Augsburg Choir in concert with
the Minneapolis Orchestra and
three featured soloists.
The first part of the program
was fairly traditional, consisting of
a Brahms overture, Academic Fes-tival,
and Grieg's Concerto in A
Minor for Piano and Orchestra.
Brahms described his own work
as a "very boisterous potpourri
of student songs." Br a h m's
craftsmanship in integrating four
different themes turned "potpour-ri"
into a unified work with a con-tinuous
melodic line. The virtuosity
of the Minneapolis Orchestra drew
out the emotional warmth and har-monic
richness of the piece.
Grieg's Concerto, a frequently
performed concert piece, featured
pianist James Johnson, a member
of the Augsburg music faculty.
The concerto is almost a sophisti-cated
Norwegian folk dance. Many
musical moods, centered around
relatively short rhythmic patterns,
color the concerto.
The orchestra did their part
beautifully. The pianist did every-thing
technically correct; though
his interpretation w a s rather
straight. The orchestra and pianist
could have been synchronized bet-course
involving the following
types of topics: (1) How do you
motivate people to new heights of
athletic achievement? (2) Why is
our culture so sports conscious?
(3) What psychological factors are
involved in learning and teaching
athletic skills? (4) How do men and
women differ in their interests
and attitudes toward sports as par-ticipants
and as spectators?
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be used as elective
credits only.
Physics Lab Project: the proto-type
of the Bethel version of the
Malmstadt-Enke Test Equipment.
A week-end trip to Argonne Na-tional
Laboratories will feature the
operation and application of a com-mercially
designed M-E test set-up.
Prerequisites: Physics 241 or per-mission
of the instructor.
Credits may be applied to a Phy-sics
major.
Sensitivity and the Christian: a
discussion and laboratory in the
method of sensitivity training as
it relates to the Christian life.
Sensitivity training is designed to
help one gain facility in expressing
personal feelings and in being re-ceptive
to the emotional needs of
others.
Prerequisites: General Psychol-ogy
151, take M.M.P.I. test (apply
to Paul Mauger).
Credits may be applied to the
Behavioral Science: Psychology
general arts requirement.
Christian Faith and History: a
consideration of writings of the re-lationship
of Christian faith and
history and attempts that have
been made to develop a Christian
theology or philosophy of history.
Students will read such books as
Herbert Butterfield's Christianity
and History, Buttrick's Christ in
History.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied toward
a history major.
Encounter with Social Problems:
tours and visits will provide first
ter. At times there seemed to be
a race going on to see who would
get to the end of the phrase first.
The pianist usually won.
By far the most novel experi-ence
of the concert was the pre-sentation
of Knut Nystedt's Lucis
Creator Optime, the world pre-miere
of his cantata which was spe-cially
commissioned for Augsburg's
Centennial Celebration.
Lucis blended contemporary
and medieval sounds to give ef-fects
ranging from integrated, pul-sating
disharmony to melodic con-fusion.
The varying effects were created
through use of antiphonal orches-tration
(the brasses and percussion
were split into either side of the
stage which gave a staccato echo
effect), aleatoric technique (the
strings start on a chord and then
glissando upward or downward so
you feel like you're being stretched
upward and pulled downward with
the tension), dissonances in both
voice and orchestration, and point-illistic
technique (starting with a
note and having voices or instru-ments
layer on it, like a chime ef-fect).
The choir sang a straight-tone
Gregorian chant style, sounding like
ghosts of medieval saints mourning
over the martyred. The text of the
piece was an old vesper hymn at-tributed
to Gregory
hand contact with forces causing
social problems within our society
today. Opportunities for discussion
of these forces will be provided
following the tours.
Prerequisites: Sociology 152 pre-ferred.
Credits may be applied to Soci-ology
major or anthropology.
Social Science Research: an in-dependent
library research project
stressing both the subject as well
as finding possible sources. The
approach will be very flexible as
to topic and manner of research.
A student may elect to research
any area of interest and use the in-structor
and the library as a ref-erence
source.
Prerequisites: Open to social
science majors and others by per-mission
of instructor.
Credits may be applied to a Soc-ial
Science major.
Creative Dramatics with Chil-dren:
principles and methods of
developing original dramatizations
with children. Primary emphasis
on story dramatization. Observa-tions
of children's classes in crea-tive
dramatics. Readings, projects,
class discussions. Intended primari-ly
for elementary education majors,
recreation students, pre-social work
students.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to Speech
a major.
Rhetoric of Racial Revolt: his-torical
and contemporary black is-sues
will be discussed using black
rhetoric as the source material.
Through discussions and lectures
an attempt will be made to arrive
at an objective evaluation of the
rhetoric of men like Stokeley Car-michael,
H. Rap Brown, Eldridge
Cleaver, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and
other contemporary black rhetoric-ians.
Prerequisites: none
Credits may be applied to Speech
a major.
Nystedt's whole work is a com-mentary
on our times as it reflects
the current juxtaposition of ortho-dox
and contemporary themes and
styles which are struggling with
each other today. The orthodox
and contemporary themes and
styles that were in conflict through-out
Nystedt's cantata were never
resolved. It was an interesting and
chaotic musical effort. Perhaps Ny-stedt
subconciously tried, and fail-ed,
to ape Penderecki.
The juxtaposition of traditional
and contemporary forms of music
were enjoyable. The integration of
the two styles has exciting musical
possibilities if the styles are in-tegrated,
and not merely played or
sung simultaneously.
The extraneous personnel on the
stage were less impressive than was
intended. (Augsburg choir members
on risers, the Minneapolis Orches-tra,
an unhinged grand piano, a
celeste, two soloists on the main
stage, and a pipe organ in the
pit.) Clean it up, clear it out. You
don't really need all those bodies
for an impressive work of art.
It all became slightly ludicrous.
Particularly considering the fact
Augsburg paid a pretty penny for
an imported Norwegian baritone
whose performance consisted of a
five minute composite total of ran-dom,
unpatterned, unintelligible
vocalizing.
Friday, October 24, 1969
Two dissimilar plays, Ionesco's
"Exit the King," and Moliere's
"The Misanthrope," mark the re-turn
of professional living theatre
to Northrop Auditorium on Mon-day,
November 3 and Tuesday,
November 4, at 8 p.m.
The decision to present the two
plays at Northrop, according to
Ross Smith, Director of Concerts
and Lectures, was made, "Because
there are once in a while oppor-tunities
to present good touring
companies that would not other-wise
be seen by Twin City Audi-ences.
APA is one of these."
"Exit the King," a product of
playwright Eugene Ionesco's mind,
presents an aging monarch faced
with the prospect of imminent
death. His two wives, one young
and the oth6r old, compete for his
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attention hoping to get him to ac-cept
one of their variant views as
to the manner in which he should
face death.
Ionesco carefully avoids cloaking
the external trappings of the play
with places, names and historical
chronology that will give the audi-ence
a chance to ignore personal
identification with the problem.
He displays his skill in accomp-lishing
this and even injecting a
type of humor that does not de-tract
from the central theme.
"The Misanthrope," Moliere's
acknowledged masterpiece, h a s
been performed at The Comedie
Francaise about 1,500 times since
1690. The witty spectacle of people
who display the utmost decorum
while cutting each other into rib-bons
has been an unfailing delight
to audiences all over the world.
You can't keep a good man down. Royals kick the ball
against Lakehead.
Canadian soccer team from Lakehead
outlasts a scrappy Bethel squad
The soccer team from Lakehead
of Canada had a very successful
road trip to the Twin Cities. They
defeated Hamline by a 4-0 score
on Friday afternoon and added
another shutout Saturday morning
by beating the Bethel squal 2-0.
It looked like the possibility of
a zip-zip score. The first 45 minute
half closed without a goal and it
wasn't until thirty minutes of the
second half that Lakehead scored.
The left wing passed the ball to
the center who manged to get a
solid kick off while the ball was
still in the air. Finding its way into
the top right hand corner, Royal
goalie Jon Nordstrom had no
chance of reaching the ball.
Lakehead's second tally came on-ly
three minutes later after a
corner kick. The Bethel defense
couldn't clear it and the Canadian
right inner slammed in a shot from
ten yards out.
Though the game was played on
an even basis most of the time,
the Lakehead team worked very
well together in their passing game.
The Bethel game plan counteracted
their potential for scoring with a
different defensive alignment. The
Royals played with only four for-wards,
the usual three halfbacks,
and the not so usual three full
backs. The halfback line had to
operate as the supporting line for
both the offense and defense. The
system worked most of the game
for defense, but left the offense
too weak to mount enough pres-sure
to score.
The Royals put out a strong
effort and were not really out of
the game until the very end. The
Canadian school, a public institu-tion,
came with experience both
as individuals and as a team.
The soccer team's Homecoming
Day game should prove to be a
real challenge as they take on the
University of Minnesota. The inter-national
students have their own
teams, so our opponents are most
likely all American. However, they
are very likely to be a good club.
Good first half was not
enough; Royals lose
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by Tim Weko
Because Falcon leads the intramural football league, some of their
members have been urging me to give them the recognition that
their 6-0 win-loss record seems to merit.
Well, to be sure, they have won more games than any other team;
it's just that they haven't been the most consistent team except for
the fact that they win consistently which is the only thing that counts
ultimately.
But Falcon has been involved in at least three sudden death
Lost overtime games with other teams. I guess what I'm trying to say is
0 that there are a number of very good teams in the intramural league
this year, any number of which could conceivably beat the leaders,
but since Falcon seems to be able to win the close ones they remain the
team to beat.
* * * *
Intramural bowling has gotten off to a rolling start with quite
a few boys showing up for the weekly Tuesday night bowler derby.
In fact, First Floor and New Dorm had so many people present that
they had to divide into two teams each. Bowling is something that
everyone can do, whether athletically inclined or not. So next Tuesday
why not go knock a few pins down for the good of your team?
* * * *
Basketball practice has started for the freshmen this week even
though the gym is full of drama equipment and choir members getting
their pictures taken. Monday, the first day of practice, was also the
day that the choir got a group picture taken. Basketball practice was
halted early to clear the floor for the choir, although a couple players
were shooting baskets at the opposite end of the court. Not being
qualified to judge a musicians motives, I can only speculate why Dr.
Robert 'Berglund, the head of the choir, stopped these fellows from
shooting: either he was afraid the eyes of the choir members would go
up and down during the pictures, or he was making a soundtrack at the
same time the pictures were being taken.
* *
While attending the fantastic performance of the Everyman Players
as they presented "The Book of Job" last Friday evening, it suddenly
dawned on me that Job, unlike his friends and family, was not a fair-weather
fan.
Last Saturday afternoon eigl-A Bethel boys went to Como Park to
play touch football with a team from St. Paul Bible School. St. Paul
Bible showed up with twenty-four players and even some spectators.
It was rumored that they had been practicing together everyday for
a month just to beat Bethel. (Maybe it was their homecoming game.)
Anyhow, they wanted to play two 45 minute halves; a move which
was interpreted as a way to tire Bethel players since there were only
eight of them.
St. Paul Bible seems to have lost to this unorganized group of
students from Bethel by the close score of 12-7. This editor extends his
sympathy to the team from St. Paul Bible and hopes that they will
challenge Bethel again sometime — after they practice a little longer.
Individual times improve
though harriers succumb
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Intramural Football Results
October 18, 1969
Second New vs. First Floor
Pit vs. Third Old
Third New vs. Second Old
Falcon vs. New Dorm
Off Campus vs. Faculty
Standings
Team
Win
1. Falcon 6
2. Off Campus 5
3. Second New 4
4. Faculty 4
5. First Floor 3
6. Pit 3
7. Third New 2
8. Second Old
1
9. New Dorm 1
10. Third Old 0
October 25
Second New vs. Second Old
Make up game 8:30
by Rich Zaderaka
For one half Saturday Bethel
played good football against Huron
College. But it wasn't enough.
Huron won its first victory of the
season 55-27. The Royal gridders
scored 27 points in the first half,
more than the total number they
had scored in their five previous
games, but a second half letdown
cost them the victory.
On the second play from scrim-mage,
Dave Pound grabbed a Mur-ray
Sitte pass and raced 78 yards
to the four yard line. One play
later, Barry Anderson rammed into
the end zone from the two for
the first score. Pound and Sitte
also scored first quarter touch-downs
as Bethel took a 21-14 lead.
Bethel's field hockey team is
still chasing victory and those hot
fudge sundaes. In a game against
the Universtity of Wisconsin at
River Falls the Bethel women lost
4-0. That looks bad, but actually
the defense did a supurb job. It
could have been much worse. The
River Falls team had previously
beaten St. Catherines 10-0. Jean
Westwater, goalie, did a good job,
keeping out the majority of the
shots.
Last Thursday in freezing, snowy
weather the Bethel women played
Carleton College at Northfield.
Carleton has always boasted a good
team and the game was a real bat-
In the second period, Cal Harfst
booted field goals of 25 yards and
28 yards, matching a Huron touch-down
and conversion failure, and
giving the Royals a 27-20 halftime
lead.
The second half was all Huron.
Scoring 15 points in the third quar-ter
and 20 in the fourth they made
the final tally 55-27.
Except for a few mistakes, the
victory could easily have been
Bethel's. Three pass interceptions
in Royal territory gave Huron op-portunities
which they capitalized
upon. The Royals had more first
downs than Huron, 16 against 13,
but Huron held a slight advantage
in total yardage, 403 to Bethel's
367.
tle with neither side scoring. The
first half belonged to Bethel, play
was offensive, and there were se-veral
scoring threats. The second
half was all Carleton and it was
to the defensive team's credit that
no goals were scored.
Bob Olsen headed the rushing
attack with 94 yards in 16 carries.
Pound and Anderson led in pass
yardage with 7 for 139 and 4 for
53 respectively. Dan Brown and
Jeff Knighton gave fine perform-ances
on kick returns, and the
defensive effort was led by Perry
Johnson, Larry Van Epps, Greg
Ekbom, and Dennis Sjogren.
In tomorrow's homecoming con-test
the Royals challenge North-western
of Iowa. Northwestern,
currently on top of their confer-ence,
has an offense which runs
and passes well, and a defense
which is particularly strong against
a running game. Bethel will have
to put two good halves together in
order to win.
Mrs. Wilson, the team's coach,
feels that Bethel has a good chance
to pull off a victory in their two
remaining games. Monday the team
plays St. Catherine's again a n d
Tuesday Bethel faces the Univer-isty
of Minnesota.
Last Saturday, the Royal cross
country team took twelvth place
out of thirteen possible at the St.
Cloud Invitational Cross Country
meet.
Held at the St. Cloud Country
Club, the meet brought together
some of the finest teams in the
Midwest. Bethel usually tries to
attend a couple of these meets to
give the runners a chance to par-ticipate
_against outstanding com-petition
and to try to improve upon
personal performances.
St. John's, which is rated as
having a very good chance to win
the National Cross Country Meet
later this year, took first place fol-lowed
by South Dakota State, St.
Cloud, Augsburg, and Macalester.
Other teams that participated are
as follows in their respective order
of placement in the meet: Bemidji
State, Moorhead, St. Thomas,
Southwest State, Golden Valley,
Duluth, Bethel, and Gustavus Adol-phus.
This afternoon at 4:00, the Royals
host Winona in the homecoming
cross country meet. The Warriors
from Winona are a strong team
with four exceptionally good run-ners.
They will provide tough corn-petition.
However, the Royals have
been training long and hard for
this one, and say they won't come
back empty-handed.
Although as a team the Royals
were not very impressive at St.
Cloud, they did have a couple of
personal time improvements.
Dwight Carlson ran the four mile
distance in 22:05, his best ever,
and Mark Anderson covered the
course in 22:25, also his best.
Paul Youngquist ran his typically
good race in 23:04. Rich Swanson,
who is usually a top contender in
most of the meets, was sick and
unable to make the meet. Had he
been able to be there the team
standing might have improved a
little. Coach Glader stated that the
meet gave the boys a chance to
prove themselves against opponents
which were "simply out of Bethel's
class".
Girls' fieldhockey team is looking for
first victory after dropping two games
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